Ankur Acharya

c/o Dr. P. C. Acharya,

House No. 24, Bhaskarnagar,
R.G. Baruah Road,
P.O. Bamunimaidam,
Guwahati-781 021.

Creative use of the written word

E-mail: ankuracharya1@gmail.com
Phone: 92070 21781

1. Aim:

 Looking for jobs related to the creative use of the written word such
as Assistant Editor, Features Editor, Sr. Sub-editor, Technical Writer,
Content Developer and the like.

2. Experience in brief:

 During my entire work-life spanning the last 8 plus years since December
2000, have been concerned with the creative use and presentation of
the written word under varying circumstances. I have especially been at
ease and successful in editing articles of varied types especially the
feature type articles.

 My current experience is as the Assistant Editor of Ishani, a cultural

English-language bi-monthly journal published by the Mahatma Gandhi
Ishani Foundation at the camp office of Nagaland Gandhi Ashram in
Guwahati. My next most recent experience has been as a content editor
and freelance journalist. In those capacities I have researched and
created several management and travel-related pages and also done
part of the research for the proposal for a documentary on the North-
east India to be submitted to Doordarshan.

 My work experience started as a Sub-editor in an upcoming English news

daily in the city of Guwahati in Assam, North-east India, The Northeast
Daily. I was in-charge of the Regional Page there.

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  My next engagement was with Castrol India Limited, a MNC, where I was
assigned to assist the Senior Sales Manager of the North-eastern Region.

 At the same time I was engaged as part-time Executive Assistant to the

Secretary, Nagaland Gandhi Ashram, a over 50 year-old NGO with camp
office in Guwahati.

 My next employment of consequence was with The Sentinel, a leading

English news daily of the North-east India with headoffice at Guwahati. I
was a senior Sub-editor there and handled almost all pages by turn,
working mainly with the editorial, features and regional pages. There I
had occasion to gain experience both in manual pasting, page layout and
later in making the pages ready in Adobe PageMaker 5 and editing the
photos in Adobe Photoshop 7.

 I also had brief stints as Sub-editor in a news portal and a news daily in
Shillong, the capital of the North-eastern State of Meghalaya. There I
had further experience with PageMaker 5, photoshop, scanning, and
handling of all types of pages as and when required.

3. Skills

 Editing and researching articles of varied types especially related to

culture, religion, travel and the like.
 Fairly acquainted with Adobe PageMaker 5, Adobe Photoshop 7, Microsoft
Word and composing and editing news pages with their help.
 Selection of news articles and stories.
 Editing of raw news, and articles submitted by authors on varied
subjects
 Experienced with news page layout.
 Worked with Windows 98, 2000 and also XP.
 Content editing

4. Employment History:

4.1 Assistant Editor

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 • Am employed as the Assistant Editor of an English language bi-
monthly journal, Ishani brought out by the Mahatma Gandhi Ishani
Foundation, Jonali Path, Guwahati.

4.2 Content Editor

• Was employed as a content editor for Word Quotient, a Bangalore-

based content services company, which has started full-time business
from January 2008.
• Since October, 2007 I have researched and submitted articles on various
topics ranging from travel to management. The following articles may be
mentioned: Advantages of ITV Ventures, Advantages of Owning Your Own
Business, Advertising for Independent Business Owners, Benefits of
Working from Home, Collecting Payments, Employment Training and
Development, Flexible Employment, Flowergirls for your Wedding,
Getting to Know ITV Ventures, Holidays to Egypt, Independent Business
Ownership VS Franchising, Outsourcing Ad Server Operations,
Outsourcing Analytics and Reporting, Outsourcing Content Management,
Outsourcing SEM and Affiliate, Supply Chain Management, Work-Life
Balance, India (a 3,500 word article on various aspects of our country),
F1 Rules and Regulations, Litigation Support Service - Indexing and
Organizing, Litigation Support Service - Objective coding.

4.2.i Freelance Journalist

• Am also engaged as a freelance journalist. Did part of the research

work for a journalist who was engaged to do the research for submission
of a proposal for a documentary on the North-east India on Doordarshan.

4.3 Sub-editor

• Worked as Sub-editor in The Shillong Times,

http://www.theshillongtimes.com/ Shillong, the leading and oldest
English news daily of Meghalaya from January 5, 2007 to June 13, 2007.
• While employed there handled all pages as and when required. Also
was in-charge of the Garo Hills Edition of The Shillong Times.
• Worked mainly with PageMaker 5, Photoshop 6 and Scanner.

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 • On the pages I was assigned, I had to select matters, edit them,
download and edit the photographs and make the page ready for print
with suitable layout on the PageMaker 5 .
• Also had to edit the reporters’ stories when assigned to the front page,
regional page and the Garo Hills Edition.

4.4 Sub-editor

• Worked as Sub-editor in The Northeast Today, Shillong, a news portal

then, which is now bringing out a regional monthly news magazine by
the same name, from December 1, 2006 to January 3, 2007.
• Selected and subbed matters related to all sections for the daily news
web portal. Also edited the reporters’ stories.
• Worked mainly with Microsoft Word and did research on the internet.

4.5 Editorial Assistant

• Worked as Executive cum Editorial Assistant to Secretary, Nagaland

Gandhi Ashrama, a Gandhian NGO founded in 1955 in Chuchuyimlang,
Nagaland with camp office in Guwahati, from April 15, 2006 to
November 30, 2006.
• Assisted the Secretary Padmashree Natwar Thakkar, an eminent
Gandhian, in composing and sending his personal correspondence both
by e-mail and as hard copies sent by Post or Courier services.
• Also assisted Shri Natwar Thakkar in his capacity as Editor of Ishani,
an English language cultural magazine brought out by the Nagaland
Gandhi Ashram and dealing with various facets of the life and culture of
the North-east India.
• Interviewed some noteworthy Gandhians such as the Octogenarian Ms.
Hema Kakoty of Kasturba Ashrama, Guwahati, and Shri Kamakhya Prasad
Das in that capacity.

4.6 Senior Sub-editor

• Worked as Senior Sub-editor in The Sentinel

http://www.sentinelassam.com/, Guwahati, one of the leading news
dailies of the North-east India, from February 24, 2003 to April 5, 2006.

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 • Handled all pages except the Sports and Front Page independently at
various times of my employment there.
• Became conversant with manual pasting initially, then making the page
layouts and getting the pages ready for printing in PageMaker 5 on the
computer.
• Worked under pressing circumstances and limited infrastructure during
editing and getting pages ready for print.
• Was in co-charge of the Regional Pages for long, and had independent
charge of the Editorial and Features Pages for nearly two years under
successive Editors, the first of whom Shri DN Bezboruah conveyed in
writing on the eve of his retirement his appreciation for my services in
assisting him with the editorial page.
• Contributed to the Sunday Magazine of The Sentinel, Melange articles on
more than one occasion which earned the appreciation of the Editor, Shri
Harekrishna Deka and the Melange Editor, Loya Agarwalla.

4.7 Executive Assistant

• Worked as part-time Executive Assistant to the Secretary, Nagaland

Gandhi Ashrama, Camp Office Guwahati from August 16, 2002 to
February 22, 2003.
• Assisted the Secretary, Shri Natwar Thakkar in his correspondence,
creative writings, and all computer-related work.

4.8 Executive Assistant

• Worked as Executive Assistant to Senior Sales Manager, Castrol India

Limited, Guwahati from August 15, 2001 to February 22, 2003.
• Handled the filing and correspondence via e-mail of the Senior Sales
Manager. Became better acquainted with the internet and e-mail in
doing so.

4.9 Sub-editor

• Worked as Sub-editor in The Northeast Daily, Guwahati, a regional

English news daily which was closed down in July, 2001, from December
1, 2000 to June 30, 2001.
• Was in independent charge of the Regional Page.
• Learned manual pasting while there and acquired skills in selecting,
editing and composing news items.

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5. Education:

o M.A. in History from Gauhati University, 1996 (55 %).

o B.A. in History from B.Barooah College under Gauhati University,
1993 (54.3 %).
o A.I.S.S.C.E. from Kendriya Vidyalaya (C.B.S.E.), 1990 (61.2 %).
o A.I.S.S.E. from Kendriya Vidyalaya (C.B.S.E.), 1988 (67.8 %).
o Diploma in End-User Computing from First Computers, Guwahati
in 1999.
o Certificate in Integrative Counselling (Peace Centre), Guwahati,
2007.
o PG Certificate in Integrative Counselling (Don Bosco Peace
Centre), Guwahati, 2008.

6. Languages known:

• English, Assamese and Hindi.

7. References and sample articles:

ℜ Will be provided on request.

Ankur Acharya

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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