Life Beyond DOT COM

Written by Anurag Bhateja on November 28, 2009 – 11:20 am -

In my last few posts, I have written a lot about the importance of being online, getting your name as domain name and benefits of being social online. No doubt, being online is one of the most important thing in lives of many people, like me, who are earning their bread from Internet only. Around 2 years back, I gave a seminar on Internet in my institute and called in dimension “I”. The dimension which can help you in making  a world around you where you can make the rules and regulations in the way you want them to be. Internet has changed lives of many people and is still changing them.

Finding friends, making new contacts and getting new clients is far more easy than before but this speed is eating happiness and reducing relaxation time day by day. If I calculate the time spend with friends and family in last 3-4 years, it will come to almost null. Being a passionate photographer, it sometimes hurt when I do not find time to go out and click some photographs of bugs. The thing is almost every IT professional is almost out of the contact of mother nature. We are becoming “Frog of the well” and do not want to go out to see whats around us.

Having a hobby can be helpful but if you can not fulfill the basic requirement of hobby i.e. time, it is of no use. Indoor hobby is also of no use, sorry. Playing game on PS2 or XBox or WII can not be counted as a “helpful hobby” as it will make you remain inside the room. What I want to say is we all need to go out. We need to get the hidden child in us, out and make fun of every single thing around us. Play, run, dance, click or do what ever you want to do but do spend sometime with mother nature. Give time to your “offline” friends and family and get a life.

You will feel good :)




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Chandigarh Festival Season

Written by Anurag Bhateja on October 26, 2009 – 11:06 am -

Every year, from Diwali i.e. in Oct/Nov to March, Chandigarh gets loaded with festivals. This last weekend I attended three different unique fests which bound me to write about them. First of all in Tagore theater, there was a theater fest in which artists from different part of India came and performed. I, unfortunately, was able to attend only one play which was “Havalat” an Indian play performed by artists of Allahabad. The play was based on the story of three friends who do not have the three basic needs of life i.e. Food, Shelter and Cloth. They tried to go to jail (Havalat in Hindi) to get all the three things for free. The story is based on how they tried to convince the police officer that they are criminals. It was full of satire, a bit of comedy and a message. The message to see around and think how lucky we are to have all these three things in our life.

Saturday was a no work day. It was actually a no work day and I relaxed like anything after a long long time. I knew Sunday is going to be very busy as I have to attend a photowalk followed by Gurdas Mann Night. Photowalk was at Kalagram where Art And Craft fest is on for 8 more days. I got some pretty good shots there. In the eve I attended the long awaited GURDAS MANN NIGHT. The night was organized by Dainik Bhaskar. It was a real time fun and dream come true to see a living legend performing live in front of eyes. That man is so much full of energy that the whole crowd of 15k people just blew the place with hooting and every single damn person was dancing there on his tunes. The song “Challa” which I think every Punjabi must be aware of, was a blast for the crowd. The thing is, such experience you can not describe in words. You have to be there to feel it.

Anyway, I am back to work now and will try to get some good tutorials today for my readers. :)

Take care and keep looking for more fest coverage as Chandigarh will now see another theater fest followed by a number of garden festivals. So be in touch and keep reading ;) ENJOY :)




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Life Behind The Ink On Paper

Written by Anurag Bhateja on October 15, 2009 – 9:21 am -

I am checking out newspapers since I was 8 years old. Those days, it was for cartoon strips and now it is for the current affairs. Sometimes, a few friends of mine asked me why I read newspaper when the news channels are live for 24×7. There is a very simple answer to them i.e. no one can complete the power of written words and news walas maximum times run behind stupid breaking news. Also to get a glance of the world around the city, local editions of newspapers are the best.

So, Hindustan Times and Dainik Bhaskar are kind of a part of my life these days. What I normally do is go downstairs, bring them up and read them in about 15-20 minutes. After that, they are just a piece of paper which will go for selling. The thoughts are changing now. Its not only about news in them. Its about the hardwork of the people associated with it. I know you all will think of reporters, editors, photographers etc but I am not talking about them. I am talking about the people who are making ways for the newspapers to survive. We, readers are not the one who make them earn but they are advertisers who support them.

In last few days, I came in contact with a team in Dainik Bhaskar and after watching them working so hard I was curious to know what they exactly do with these things. So they explained the working situation in past and in present of a newspaper. Long time ago when there was not much competition and there were no news channels, newspapers were the only source for the deep inside review of all the things going around. The editors were the power in chief and only because of their name the newspaper was living but thing have changed now. Money, competition and search for the best readership is there. So the management has been introduced. The management bring in the money for the empire. They build the relationship between the reader and the paper.

It is the management who bring advertisements and you can go mad when you see a higher official of advertising section working 24×7 in seasons like of Diwali. The advertisers give ads on last moment and some of them drag their ass out in last seconds. Then the struggle of how to remove the editorial or how to add more content starts. Fights between editor and advertising section is so normal that sometimes it goes above limits.

I realized in the field of newspaper it is not time bound. If the client is paying you have to change whole format of the page in minutes just for them. No matter how much struggle you have to do, client is GOD.

This is really interesting to understand the present infrastructure of the newspapers. If you get a chance to have a inside out glance of it, do not miss the chance :)




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