by E Shailaja Nair | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Labour shortage in the Asia-Pacific region will hit a whopping 12.3 million by next year, according to a Future of Skills report released by LinkedIn recently. Apart from an opportunity cost of US$4.2 trillion, the major reason for this shortfall is lack of skills,...
by E Shailaja Nair | Jun 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Being an editor is easy. It only takes years of schooling where you pay acute attention to all those grammar classes, another few years at the university where you hone your language skills, another year or so studying journalism, and then years and years of hands-on...
by E Shailaja Nair | Jun 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
One of my best experiences as a trainer was when I was working with seven-year-olds at an international school in Munich while I was on a fellowship to the Internationale Jugendbibliothek. In the course of the day, we came up with original stories that the children...
by E Shailaja Nair | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
How do you manage to find the time to write? If I had a penny for every time I was asked this question, I would be a multimillionaire by now. I was asked this while a student of English Literature. I was asked this when I was a young mom of a toddler. I was asked this...
by E Shailaja Nair | Jun 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you are a journalist, you must be able to write. This is an assumption made by many. They couldn’t be more wrong. In my 35 years as an editor, I have come across writing that is so bad that you would not believe it came from reporters whose job it is to...
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