Ranjitt Khomne
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Location | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Introduction | Active media journalist since 1994. Have worked with several leading newspapers in India like the Times of India, Mid Day, The Afternoon Despatch & Courier, all Mumbai, and reported news stories and features on state and national politics, crime, development, etc. Covered Indian Parliament from New Delhi for two years from 1996. Headed www.mid-day.com for over a year before shifting to a top cell phone content provider as senior news editor since 2005. In October 2008, moved to Mid Day, Mumbai's only English tabloid, as the City Editor only to quit there a year later to pursue his own things... |
| Interests | नमस्कार. सेपिया मोड में आपका स्वागत हैं. टेक्नोलॉजी के इस युग में, मोबाइल फ़ोन, डिजीटल कैमरे और विशेष कर ऑरकुट और जी जीमेल के जमाने में, शायद ही कोई हो जिसे सेपिया मोड पता न हो. जो बिता हुआ हो, जिसे देखते हुए आपके मानसपटल के रंग बदल जाते हो, जिसमे अब कोई बदलाव सम्भव न हो, वह सेपिया मोड. जिंदगी के इस सेपिया मोड में एडिट आप्शन नही होता! जो जैसा था, वाकई बहोत सुंदर था. फ़िर वह गाव की गलियों के बीच बिता बचपन हो, कुछ टूटे ख्वाब हो, कुछ बिखरे हुए पल हो. कुछ बाते जो घटी, और कुछ वह जो आधी अधूरी रह गई, वह सेपिया मोड. मुझे लगता हैं हम में से हर किसीके जीवन एक सेपिया मोड होता हैं. कुछ उसे भूल जाने की समझदारी दिखाते हैं, कुछ उसे दिलोदिमाग के किसी कपाट में दूर कही बंद किए देते हैं. प्रायः तो यह कपाट खुलते नही हैं, लेकिन कुछ लोगो के लिए सेपिया मोड ही जीवन बन जाता हैं. वर्त्तमान की कई सारी बाते इतनी बेमानी हो जाती हैं, इतनी मशीनी हो जाती की हैं, की अतीत बहोत सुहावना प्रतीत होता हैं. कहते हैं हर जीव खुशी चाहता हैं--आनंद आदमी का मूल स्वाभाव हैं...अगर कुछ लोगो के लिए इस खुशी का नाम सेपिया मोड हो तो ऐसे हे सही..गैर क्या हैं. क्या वर्त्तमान, क्या भूत और क्या भविष्य, जब सब खेल हैं. लेकिन हर वर्त्तमान सेपिया नही हो सकता. इसलिए सेपिया की अहमियत कुछ और हैं. इसलिए किसीके लिए जीवन का नाम सेपिया मोड हैं. स्वागत!!! |
| Favorite movies | Real-life cinema, what was once known as Art films. Katha, Suraj Ka Satva Ghoda, Chashme Baddoor--Dipti Naval as Ms Chamko or the girlnextdoor has been part of mistladen sepia memories since then. Light but sensitively made films on contemporary or historical issues.. |
| Favorite music | Spiritual & love songs, esp of the 1960's genre...Sepia Mode>>>That moment of life, present or past, which you cherish. For, as far as my mind can race, I can see that only a heart which CAN feel sorrow has given rise to most and the best of world poetry, literature, cinema, music. While most will agree that the mind conjures up most complexities in life, it is the heart that heals them. Love is the eternal emotion in life as in divinity. Only love can heal, whether it is torn relationships within a 2BHK (Mumbai's lingo for bedroom hall kitchen) or the killing fields of the Gaza strip..Ironically, not many of us know what love is---We are such tailormade complete individuals! Yes, we live in troubled times. In times that are insecure, in times where we are afraid of ourselves, our own emotions. In times, when most of us put up a facade for something or the other..We fear the unknown though that is such a basic emotion since evolution..But we act as if we are so much in control of ourselves..We can't stop talking about me, my world, ithoughtasmuch kind, i did this, i hate that, and i dislike that...Er, lest we forget, afterall, we live in a plastic, thermocol, tupperware world, and we are no different. Our relationships are no different...How profesionally we manage our relationships!! Alas they could be called so in the first place. They are alliances of convenience. We think we can wriggle out of this dirt, but we go deeper and deeper into it..Anyway, this is my experience of things I see around. I would like to know yours. And we are not here to teach, we are hear to learn, to share, and experience, that once upon a time--all of us were human..Sepia Mode would publish poetry, articles, short stories, with due credit. And diary items...Thoughts to myself kind..Experiences, reflections on everyday events which can convey a deeper meaning, a deeper insight into our psyche...so that we can become human once again. So, that we can understand, yes, love... |
| Favorite books | Biographicals, contemporary history works, poetry, spiritual literature, research-oriented reading on oriental sciences... |