Interview with Blogger Barun Roy – The Pakistani Spectator!

A Masters Degree holder in Computer Aided Designing and a double graduate in Computer Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering, Barun Roy is the author of 11 books including two best sellers – Fallen Cicada and Sunset Dreams. He has worked in different capacities – as a Humanitarian Aid Worker, he has worked in Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Chechnya. As a journalist he has traveled through almost all the states of India and Nepal. Barun Roy became one of India’s youngest professional editors when at the age of 19 he edited a Monthly English Newsmagazine called Beacon. His name was included in India’s Outstanding Personalities’ Directory in the year 1998 and in 1999 he was awarded the ‘Super Intellectual Award 1998’ by International Management Council of India, New Delhi.

Barun Roy, today spends much of his time, traveling, writing, researching, reporting, blogging and as he says ‘experiencing’ different cultures. Barun Roy is also deeply devoted to social welfare, working amongst farmers and tea workers in the villages and tea plantations of Darjeeling Hills.

Would you please tell us something about you and your site?

My blog is The Himalayan Beacon known popularly among the blogging community and the readers as simply, Beacon Online

I began blogging on the first of January 2008. It was something that I had been putting aside for some years. Blogging requires a concentrated effort and a commitment to post at least once in a day. As a journalist, author, researcher and a traveler, I would often find hard to devote time. Yet after I took up responsibility of Darjeeling Times, as its editor I realized that I had to start blogging. Mainstream journalism has its restrictions. Either, there is only so much that you can publish and so much that you can deliberate upon. My first posts thence, were issues that I could not dwell on in the Magazine. Within a fortnight, I began posting almost daily. By the end of January 2008, Beacon Online had latest news, exclusive news reports, cover stories and exclusive photo features. In the month of February 2008, I started incorporating interview audios and videos. By the end of March 2008, general discussions on Beacon Online had led to the publication of first European Article on the issues of Gorkhas in India by the International Relations and Security Network, Zurich. Numerous articles concerning Gorkhas in India in Marathi by Sunjay Awati, Associate Editor, Lok Satta, was published in association with Beacon Online. Within four months thus, Beacon Online has transformed in itself from a mere personal outlet of a journalist into a major news, views and entertainment provider and a platform for social deliberations to millions of Gorkhas all over world.

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