This started as a place for us to have a permanent mail-id! I was tired of changing it ever so often. One thing led to another…
Ajay Jaiman: This blog is about stuff I do when I am not working (photography, adventure travel, cross-country cycling, pottery, baking…) and things that interest me outside of my work (environment, sustainability, education…).
Arti Jaiman: Arti Jaiman started her career in journalism as a writer with the Arts pages of The Economic Times in 1991. During her six-year-stint with the paper as Feature Writer, Arti wrote extensively on theatre, education, special education and arts, design and literature. In 1998, Arti co-founded Pitara Kids Network (www.pitara.com), an online magazine for children between the ages 4 to 14 years, which draws upon an Asian (and primarily Indian) socio-cultural context for inspiration. She has subsequently written on education, children’s literature, parenting, and reviewed fiction and non-fiction for mainstream English newspapers like The Hindu and Tehelka. Today, Arti juggles her time between Pitara, editing projects, and managing the launch of a community radio project in Gurgaon for the NGO TRF (www.trfindia.org). Arti has a Masters degree in Journalism from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, a Post Graduate Diploma in Communications from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi and a BA in English from Delhi University, Delhi, India.
Hey Aarti,
I suddenly remembered you mentioned something about a blog so thought I would check it out..Just glanced through some of the posts- and Im glad to report that there looks like alot of stuff here to come back to for an interesting read. I’ll leave comments as and when I go through posts. It was great having spent so much time with you and your super cool family (including the mom in law)
Take care,
Deeksha
hi ajay..
i stalled upon this and what do i see? this is brilliant..
its a read.. wonderful blogs
and great work..
after pitara, completely lost touch..
and hence this was rejuvenating!
wish you great success and good luck with your work and and huge amounts of peace and joy at home..
god bless
padmini
I would Like to have the contact person’s Name & Email id.Kindly revert back.
Respected Sir/Madam,
My name is Sunny Bhambhani..Am an engineer turned into a film maker..My short Film “Ansuni” got a National telecast on Sony Pix ( Did my diploma in film making from Whistling Woods International) and from there on I went on to directe my first feature film “love express” For mukta arts – the film production house, that released in June last month. Am now looking for newer stories on kids to be made.
I have been reading articles of Chitra Padmanabhan off late, they interest me and would like to meet up and discuss more on kids stories with her. I stumbled upon Pitara and have been trying from few days to get in touch with someone from there, but the contact us feed doesn’t seem to be working.
I feel me and Pitara and Chitra who is the onboard editor; I believe share the similar vision on kids and wanted to know how could I get in touch with you all and her regd the same.
WIll respect if we could connect thru email or phone.
Awaiting a positive reply.
Thank you
Sunny Bhambhani