A. Sathyanarayanan B.Sc, MBA (44) (Content writer N Creative writer)

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Key Skills

Creative Writing: Expert level

Content Sourcing: Expert level

Research Writing: Competent

Copy Editing: Functional

Advertising Experience (1992-2003)

10 years in “Client Servicing” and “Account Planning”

(Handling NIIT, HCL, Hindustan Motors, HMT Watches, Citibank, Redington)

Change in Career track

fRom Advertising (1992-

2002)

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WRITING (since 2003-)

Certainly among India’s best creative writers.. Pls read the links on slide 13 to 16!

Bahrain experience – 2003 I launched a ‘Human Resource” Magazine for Bahrain

Society of Training & Development (BSTD), Ministry of Labour.

Said Ms. Miriam Janahi, BSTD President, on its launch at Manama in 2003: Sathya is a man of integrity, we lucky to have found him

Femina – 2007 and 2008

The Femina editor wrote: shweta and i think your talent will be great for the femina website where there is extra need for inspirational stories. Also because you have such a storehouse of tales to tell

O my darling India, writersworkshop (2009) – MY FIRST BOOK

Print Asia, Amazon, India Club, Flikr, Price cart still hawk on their pages; a Colonel’s wife took my hand and wept,” It reminded me the day my dad died” – it’s then I realized the power of words. Writing is more than vanity.

Tattvaloka – 2011

Said Editor T R Ramachandran: Your articles are the best in Tattvaloka

(I did 17 articles - I had two columns each issue in the 9 months I was associated with them).

Careers360 – 4 features in 2012

a) Making the transition from public to private sector

b) How to dress on your first day at work?

c) Making PowerPoint Slides

d) Improving your written communication

“Hindu Articles” – 2012/13

Eliots Beach: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3445785.ece

A CAT topper: http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/belling-the-cat/article4478605.ece

Singer Ramprasadh: http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/virtual-lessons/article4522049.ece

Times of India article on me -2013

Says Ms.Babita Basu, TOI columnist, in an article:

Mr Sathya, for sure, comes across as a valid scientist providing valuable insights in the Indian publishing industry.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/the-enchanted-word/entry/simran-rohatgi-the-underbelly-of-the-indian-publishing-industry?fb_action_ids=572325296111420&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=246965925417366

My Blogs – over 1,00,000 pageviews

http://dauntlesssathya.blogspot.in/ (ramble)

http://thinksathya.blogspot.in/ (hobbies)

http://damienbosses.blogspot.in/ (office humour)

(My blogs average between 300-400 pageviews everyday)

writing samples:

Where Indian writers fail? http://thinksathya.blogspot.in/2012/08/indian-columnists-n-garbage-bin.html

Learning Arabic: http://writersathya.blogspot.in/2009/07/learning-arabic.html

Simran story: http://observesathya.blogspot.in/2011/06/in-love-with-simran.html

(Over 500 blog posts spread over 7 years of writing labour; here’s a short sample)

Writing Sample: Motivation http://writersathya.blogspot.in/2009/06/nest-build

ing.html

http://writersathya.blogspot.in/2009/12/book-2.html

http://writersathya.blogspot.in/2008/06/cheerful-beggar.html

http://writersathya.blogspot.in/2011/05/another-day-in-paradise.html

(So many face their troubles in life stoically, so heroic they serve an inspiration)

Writing Sample: Random Kindness

http://thinksathya.blogspot.in/2012/01/when-nightingale-came-home.html

http://thinksathya.blogspot.in/2009/11/shraddam-in-bahrain.html

http://writersathya.blogspot.in/2009/08/what-is-love.html

http://observesathya.blogspot.in/2012/06/like-dog-with-two-tails.html

(Acts of random kindness as a category makes for pleasant reading!)

Writing Sample: Office humour

http://damienbosses.blogspot.in/2013/07/mamma-vallai.html

http://damienbosses.blogspot.in/2013/05/who-cares-so-what.html

http://damienbosses.blogspot.in/2013/05/international-womans-day.html

http://damienbosses.blogspot.in/2013/05/hyderabad-interview-botch-up.html

http://damienbosses.blogspot.in/2013/04/cost-cutting.html

(50 such short posts on office humour – check whether these amuse you)

Content Sourcing

Mentor Learning (Instructional design for a soft-skills training firm) in 2008

Contents for Astroved on online astrology in 2009.

Santa Monica (overseas consultants) in 2010

eAmbalam in Music and Arts in 2013

(every client kept coming back for years on editing, content sourcing, PPTs)

Research Writing

Did 27 projects for www.Writerbay.com, a world’s leading UK based research writing site in 2011 handling diverse subjects and very short deadlines.

(Very stringent on plagiarism levels and emphasis on original reconstruction of sentences for thesis at Masters and Graduate levels for first world students in Europe and America)

Links to all my published articles

I have been published 27 times in the last 2 years. You can find most of the links here:

http://writersathya.blogspot.in/2012/08/my-published-articles.html

(A woman can lie about her age, a man about his salary but not a writer about his art. Why? It is a product in front of you)

Contact details

044 24463332 98400 89256

Sherlock.holmes.gcc@gmail.com

a.s.narayanan33@gmail.com