Anurag Dutta

Day 1 at work

After an entire week as a tourist in Hong Kong. my visa status finally got changed. So Day 1 at work at the National Geographic Channel finally. My office is located on the waterfront so its an amazing place. My day started with attending a meeting of the heads of the new NAt Geo [...]

The year that was

Now I haven’t been really fair to my blog for the past year: keeping it out of all the action, and what action there was. So here’s all the juice.
It was the beginning of the fall semester(ya ya I’m using fingangee lingo), when Sandy* decided to run for President. He ran. He lost. He lost [...]

Adieu Blogger

After holding back the action for a long time, I have finally moved my blog out of blogger into my own Wordpress server and am I ever loving it. Not that Blogger wasn’t fun and simple to use, but the customizability of Wordpress has left me absolutely stunned, not to mention this absolutely gorgeous theme [...]

Doodles #2

Doodles

Young TDC

Older TDC

Was supposed to be an older TDC, but thanks to my poor drawing skills, here’s the world’s first glimpse at a tribal TDC
 
P.S: As is painfully obvious, I am bored to my bones. Someone help me!!

10 To-do’s for the next decade

I have a decade before I turn 30. This is my wishlist before then:

Travel Asia and Europe extensively
Perform to a crowd of over 10000
Start my own business
Make a meaningful social impact
Hold my own Photo exhibition
Raft on the Brahmaputra
Make sure atleast one relationship lasts for more than a month
Attend Burning Man
Have a cover photo on the [...]

Of Universities and The Express

The Indian Express made my day today with this wonderful headline:
  No Indian Universities in global toplist so UGC has a solution: let’s prepare our own list

The article goes on to elaborate how NAAC(National Assessment and Accreditation Council) and UGC(University Grants Commission) are whining about this situation. NAAC says that the criteria used by rankings [...]

Treat me proper

So the other day, I was walking the roads of BITS Pilani, late at night, with Neeraj, and our conversation came to revolve around how college life in India(atleast at BITS) is only a slight improvement over high school. My personal opinion is that once a person enters college, the society has got to start [...]

Young Visionary

Last night was the finals of the Habitat Young Visionary Award 2009. I came 2nd on the contest after Parth Patel of IIT Delhi. As a result I will be interning at Nat Geo Hong Kong this summer. Thank you everyone for calling up last night. Made me feel really special. More on the contest [...]

Hungry Fools cometh

This December, Rachit, Raghav, Pranav, Rishabh and I took a journey of a lifetime as social journalists through the forests of Tamil Nadu. Here is a sneak peek at our documentary, made over 10 days of road tripping.
Hungry Fools Trailer - GrassRoutes from Flaunge on Vimeo.
@Flaunge: Thanks for the brilliant editing