Anshuman Rawat

Author. Entrepreneur. Filmmaker. Journalist.


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The following is an extract from I Am Ahmedabad, a collection of short stories ### Hi, this is Aditi. How may I help you?” “Hi, this is Nishant again. I’m sorry our call had got cut the last time.” “How did you get through the same person, me, again, so soon, Mr. Nishant”, the knowledge of Nishant’s background was unmistakable...

Aur ek din, mera bhi aa hi gaya. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to share it with you because my dad does not want the world to know his only child’s ‘actual’ 12th board results. And the editor of League has flatly refused to play the Goga Kapoor of ‘Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na’ by printing my fake marks in this column. (Damn! Another opportunity to become SRK goes...

So you stood in long queues for giving your audition for RJ but did not get selected? Well, big deal. Even Amitabh Bachchan was not short-listed by All India Radio. Consider yourself in good company and get into a radio station through some other door! Yes, in all the hype and hoopla surrounding the job of an RJ, we tend to forget the a career with radio is much more than...

Orthodox side of every religion, in one way or the other, would teach us that God is present in every single particular of this world – either as a resident or the landlord of that particle. Furthermore, anything that takes place or is made to happen is either God on an auto-pilot mode or acting through a ‘worldly driver’ (human being). And that apart...

Twenty two people had lost their lives in the recent week-long agitation by Gujjars for inclusion in the ST category. While the human casualty, fortunately, was limited to 1 in the Dera Sachcha Sauda and Akal Takht confrontation, shops and business establishments had suffered a major blow. We are citing only these examples here not because they are novel in nature, but...

(I) Australian cricket team pulls out of the Zimbabwe tour It would not have been much of a contest anyway. If the series had been undertaken, very few – even in the cricketing world – would have spared much time on following the series. But now that the series has been called off – or should we say boycotted by Cricket Australia, on strong suggestion...