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Ajay Kamalakaran ajay78
Ajay Kamalakaran
Status: Ajay from Bombay: Vung Tau- similarities with Tamil Nadu http://t.co/gnvS90pkg8 (62.3 days ago)


Gender and Age: Male, 34
Country of Residence: India India
Country of Birth: India India
Nationalities: Indian Indian
Russian Russian
Sri Lankan Sri Lankan
Citizenships: India India
Languages: English , Russian , Hindi , German , French , Tamil , Malayalam , Urdu , Italian
Website: Website http://ajayinbombay.blogspot.com/
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About Me   About Me
Ajay Kamalakaran is a journalist and travel-writer based in Bombay, India.

Writing has always been a passion for Ajay, who started working as a free-lancer from his college days.

He was the editor of the Sakhalin Times in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia from 2003 to 2007. The now-defunct newspaper was the largest and most widely-circulated English-language newspaper in the Russian Far East from 2001 to 2009.

While in Sakhalin, Ajay made guest appearances on the several radio news programmes on BBC's Channel 4.

He is also the author of Sakhalin Unplugged, the first English-language guidebook to the Sakhalin Region.

Ajay also worked for Reuters news from 2007 to 2010, first as a reporter in Sakhalin and then in Bangalore, India. Besides covering environmental and demographic issues in the Russian Far East and the oil and gas industry in Sakhalin, Ajay also covered crime.

In Bangalore, Ajay was in charge of reporting all U.S. overnight equity news for Reuters. While covering the the global financial crisis, Ajay wrote several articles connected with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the bankruptcies of Chrysler and General Motors as well as major financial acquisitions like Pfizer's takeover of Wyeth.

Ajay loves learning new languages and can manage a decent conversation in 7 different ones including Russian and French.

He is also passionate about music, books, mountain-climbing and has recently developed an interest in long-distance running.

You can follow Ajay on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ajaykamalakaran
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Countries Visited   UNESCO Sites Visited
Austria Historic Centre of Vienna
Austria Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
China Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
China Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
China Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
China Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
China The Great Wall
France Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims
France Paris, Banks of the Seine
India Agra Fort
India Ajanta Caves
India Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
India Churches and Convents of Goa
India Elephanta Caves
India Ellora Caves
India Great Living Chola Temples
India Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
India Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
India Mountain Railways of India
India Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
India Red Fort Complex
India Taj Mahal
Indonesia Borobudur Temple Compounds
Indonesia Prambanan Temple Compounds
Italy Historic Centre of Florence
Italy Historic Centre of Naples
Italy Historic Centre of San Gimignano
Italy Historic Centre of Siena
Italy Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
Malaysia Kinabalu Park
Nepal Kathmandu Valley
Netherlands Defence Line of Amsterdam
Portugal Cultural Landscape of Sintra
Portugal Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
Russia Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Russia Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
Russia Lake Baikal
Sri Lanka Ancient City of Polonnaruwa
Sri Lanka Ancient City of Sigiriya
Sri Lanka Golden Temple of Dambulla
Sri Lanka Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications
Sri Lanka Sacred City of Anuradhapura
Sri Lanka Sacred City of Kandy
Tanzania Serengeti National Park
Thailand Historic City of Ayutthaya and Associated Historic Towns
Thailand Historic Town of Sukhotai and Associated Historic Towns
United Kingdom Tower of London
United Kingdom Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church
United States Statue of Liberty
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