Guest Authors

Well, I thought why not let you have an insight into the persons behind those beautiful articles that has put some quality into this blog. So, I asked them to write about themselves and here are they, in their own words:

ROTO CHOBIN

WHO? ROTO CHOBIN!

I was born at Hao po lyang or Hapoli (Arunachal) on February 27. When I was little I was fond of playing doctor – dissecting frog, rat, etc. Seeing me doing this, my father hoped I would become doctor someday and sent me to boarding school at Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) when I was just 11 years old where I met ‘AG’ and some very nice fellow. While I am still at boarding school, my curiosity in anatomy gradually faded away as the magic of words and sentences began to fascinate me more. And the discovery of Enid Blyton, the Hardy Boys’ series and all, helped me greatly to opt for humanities stream after my matriculation. My father was bit upset when he learnt about my decision. I still love reading both fiction and non-fiction. My favorite authors are – John Grisham, Jeffrey Archer, Robin Cook, etc. As for the books; I love to read the biography of Lee Iaococca, the diary of Anne Frank, and so on and so forth. Lately I read Robin Sharma’s “the monk who sold his Ferrari” and liked it immensely.

After passing out of school, I went to Sri Venkateswara College (Delhi University) to do B.A. During my sophomore year at college, I learned that my father had a lung cancer and won’t live long to see me completing my graduation. I couldn’t attend his burial ceremony as he strictly said to me that I should come back home with a B.A. degree. Due to rampant corruption in the state, I was unable to land a good job for few years after my father’s death. I worked for my cousin sister as a salesman. Perhaps, two months later she shifted her shop to Itanagar. I tried my hand at Greeting card, but didn’t work out for me. And then opened a cafeteria, it did well but brought me a little money. Last year, to be precise, November 2006 was the month when I brought out the first copy of “ZIRO MIRROR” which implies that I worked also as Executive Editor, Managing Editor, News Editor, Copy Writer and Distributor. A few People appreciated it. The rest still remain unknown to it. There are piles and piles of copies of ZM lying at my room. And I’m still repaying the money I borrowed to start this. At present, I’m working as a teacher.

In regard to academic matters; I was not so bright, but I wasn’t so dull either. Just after my graduation, I was selected to do Garment Manufacturing Technology course at NIFT, Chennai. I couldn’t afford the fees. A couple of months later, I again got through in the exam for Public Relation course at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Calcutta. But fate decided otherwise.

I traveled to many places in India, especially northern India during my short stint as an escort. I had been to Jaipur, Shimla, Chandigarh, Kolkotta, Meerut, Nainital, Dehradhun, Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Shillong and Agra – saw the magnificent Taj Mahal. In retrospect; among all the places I had been to, I felt most unsafe in Jaipur and Delhi. I would love to travel to European countries someday.

My friends say that I am sensitive. But I think I am hyper-sensitive. I am a bit conscious about my short stature. And at five feet two inches, the world looks really big. I love listening to all kind music from Beethoven to John Denver to Ice Cube. I particularly liked the vocal of Freddie Mercury of queen band. Wished he could live a little longer.

That’s all. Me - in a nutshell.

-rotochobin[at]rediffmail[dot]com

His work can be found under the label Cho’s Take

GYATI TALLO

(To be updated)
Updated

Two years back, when AG asked me if I would like to contribute in his blog ‘the arunachal diary’, I accepted his offer readily. I wasn’t sure what I was going to contribute but I thought of using it as an opportunity to rediscover the hobby of my school days. Then I thought of using some fancy pseudonyms like most people do in net. “No,” I told myself. “I’m trying to rediscover my school days’ hobby – by using pseudonym I’ll be little too casual with what I’m doing – and I’ve to be responsible for what I write, if at all I do – so why under cover of pseudonym.” Therefore, I gave up the idea of using pseudonym. Umm…Why I am writing this? Actually, I am fed up with ‘PROFILE TO BE UPDATED’ written below my name, for almost two long years, in Guest Authors page of AD. So updating my profile…

-Gyati Tallo

His work can be found under the label G. Tallo's Take.

ARIF SIDDIQUI

He is an Engineer by profession and working as a Junior Engineer in Arunachal Pradesh Public Works Department and posted in Jairampur.

Apart from his profession as an Engineer, his passion is all about photography, nature and butterflies. Perhaps, he is the first man who brought Arunachal Pradesh in the Butterfly Map of world.

His work can be found here.

-arunachal[dot]arif[at]gmail[dot]com.
Website: Amazing Arunachal