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| Ajay Kamalakaran |
| Status: @GrahamRBates Thank You Sir and Have a Great Weekend (7.3 days ago) |
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Male, 33
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India |
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Indian
Russian
Sri Lankan
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India
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English
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, Hindi
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, French
, Tamil
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, Urdu
, Italian
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 http://ajayinbombay.blogspot.com/ |
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 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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- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
- A Burmese Legacy by Sue Arnold
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (scholastic Classics) (Scholastic Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Among the Believers by V S Naipaul
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B.m. Mooyaart
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Crime and Punishment (Dover Thrift Editions) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
- Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Eaten By the Japanese: The Memoir of an Unknown Indian Prisoner of War by John Baptist Crasta
- Fortune Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
- Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
- Freedom in Exile by Dalai Lama Xiv Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho
- Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by M.k.gandhi, Sissela Bok, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa
- In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf
- Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
- Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
- Malaysian Flavours: Insights into Things Malaysian by Lee Su Kim
- My Name Is Red (Vintage International) by Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar
- Oliver Twist (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey, Robert Faggen
- Out of Africa (Modern Library) by Isak Dinesen
- Poona Company by Farrukh Dhondy
- Prisoner in the Caucasus and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
- The African Dream: The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Aleida Guevara March, Ernesto Guevara, Richard Gott, Patrick Camiller, Ernesto "che" Guevara
- The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
- The City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
- The Godfather (Signet) by Mario Puzo
- The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alan Myers
- The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
- The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
- The Legends of Khasak by O.V. Vijayan
- The Prince and the Pauper (Modern Library Classics) by Mark Twain, Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Penguin Popular Classics) by L.frank Baum
- This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang, Philippe Grangereau
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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