You know you own a space when people change convention on your account. Girl on phone from Goa to Rimjhim, head of Logistics, “yes, I got that, Think. You mean T-H-small i-N-K, right?” Rimjhim, doubling over with laughter, “on a bill, it’s okay to write Think the old-fashioned way, too.” Win!
A soldier rises against the government
Anna Hazare is coming to #THiNK2012. G Vishnu wrote this piece on Anna’s movement for Tehelka when it was in its initial stages Jantar Mantar, one of the few places in Delhi where the government of India allows protests, is suddenly being termed as “India’s Tahrir Square”. On a hot summer day, over 600 people Read More…
And a sudden discovery on the THiNK team!
The THiNK war room may look like Mayhem Central but it’s manned by geniuses, even if we say so ourselves. Late last night, speaker Masha Gessen’s passport landed in our inboxes – to stunned silence as we realised much of the details were in, well, Russian. Turns out Anuja, Keeper of Logistics in the THiNK Read More…
Behind the gloss
What you will see at THiNK for three days has taken a lot of hard work months before the event. Both known and unknown faces who represent Tehelka are helping us pull off this grand endeavour. On the evening of 22 October, the support staff at our Greater Kailash office helped pack and load THiNK merchandise Read More…
Team Tehelka gets ready to welcome
Team Tehelka gets ready to welcome the guests at #THiNK2012. Copy editors double up at the help desk, reporters become your personal GPS devices at the venue. So go ask them, if you are lost or you want some information about the sessions. We promise they won’t bite. ”It’s like a shaadi,” says Tehelka’s Managing Editor Shoma Read More…
10 DAYS TO GO TO #THINK2012
The creator of CGNet
Shubhranshu Choudhary is coming to #THiNK2012. Here is a profile of the 40-something innovator who has revolutionised journalism in Chhattisgarh from Tehelka Archives Citizen journalism may be a movement empowering affected people to report challenges that confront them first-hand. But illiteracy, lack of technical infrastructure and language issues prevent most rural citizens — those most Read More…
Rajeev Chandrasekhar and his Idea of India
Rajeev Chandrasekhar is coming to THiNK2012. Here is his interview to Vijay Simha in 2009 from Tehelka Archives on his Idea of India. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, was one of the three architects of the Pentium microprocessor. He returned from a happening stint in the Silicon Valley after a meeting with then Congress idealist Rajesh Pilot convinced him Read More…