Resmi Jaimon : Freelance Writer, Kochi - Kerala, Mumbai

Breaking over five years of silence, hoping I post more frequently. The past few years, my entire focus was on my new found love, entrepreneurship and the role of a fashion designer. I head the online boutique, My Kerala Sarees (www.mykeralasarees.com - coming back soon!) and market my products through facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/mykeralasarees/ )  and whatsapp. Writing was never my ambition except for love for letter writing since I was 11. But, I made a successful career as a professional freelance writer, writing for Indian and International Media for 14 years, without any formal education. Similarly, in May 2016, I suddenly decided to sell Kerala Sarees and started my business with just six set mundu (the two-piece traditional Kerala attire), In a month, I moved to 50 and the rest is history! Today, I create unique combos of Kerala Sarees and Set Mundu with matching blouses, and all handworked are self-designed. This added to my motherhood (in the ninth yea...

From the role of a freelance writer to the role of introducing my hometown, Kochi  in Kerala, India to Raphael de Casabianca, the anchor of the well-known Travel Magazine, Echappées Belles  (Beautiful Escapes), France 5 (French TV channel), my career is probably taking a new twist.  (First telecast was on Feb 15, 2014 and re-telecast on Feb 23, 2014) Watch the Kerala show - Travel magazine Echappées Belles" (Beautiful Escapes) on France 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoTemD_55RI or http://conscience.33.free.fr/tv_sante.html#kerala. (I appear in the 1:33 hour long show at 56 minutes , disappear at 1:02 minutes and reappear 1:17 minutes and remain till the end of the show.) What's more interesting is the fact, the shoot for the France 5 Travel show began on January 13, the same day I had started my freelance writing career. The shoot lasted for 2.5 days, capturing the beauty of Cochin, The Queen of the Arabian Sea. I hope you enjoy the show and m...

Here goes my interview with Rakesh Mantodi, Scriptwriter, Thira (Vineeth Sreenivasan's first in the triology, Malayalam film, released in Nov 23):   http://www.techgoss.com/Story/595S11-Satyam-Techie-is-script-success.aspx

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Title: The Bankster Author: Ravi Subrahmanian Publisher: Rupa Interesting Storyline. Not very thrilling, but made me curious ‘what next?’ Or else how would I have managed to read over 320 pages in one-go, in around 5 hours? This was the second time I was reading a novel related to finance. Ravi has used simple terminology, which any lay man can understand. After all, the focus was on something that was happening behind the scenes and hence, the storyline was on attempting to solve the mystery. Now, let us talk of the story.   The novel begins with the trading of diamonds in Angola, moves to of the involvement of a man in Kerala and his stand on the Trikakulam nuclear reactor built in his area and finally, moves to a Mumbai based Great Boston Global Bank. The larger part of the story involves the Great Boston Global Bank and its employees. The trouble starts when some of the bank employees are found dead. Everyone looks at the cases as accidents, until clues begin emerging...

Title: The Krishna Key Author: Ashwin Sanghi Publisher: Westland Pages: 485 Price: Rs. 250 Summary: Thriller to reveal the hidden Krishna secret – The Krishna Key and a murder mystery Dr. Anil Varshney, an archaeologist working in Kailbangan hands over one seal each to his research and academic friends for safe keeping. The four seals together should fit in to a base plate that contains the final clue to a hidden secret, referred to as ‘The Krishna Key.’ The base plate, he tells his friend, Dr Ravi Mohan Saini, a professor at St Stephen’s College in New Delhi, is locked away in a locker. Dr. Ravi Mohan Saini is the main signatory and will be contacted if anything happens to Dr.Anil Varshney. Soon, Saini is held responsible for Dr. Varshney’s murder, as Saini was the last person to see Dr.Varshney alive. The cops have enough proof to convict Saini for Dr.Varshney’s murder. Saini’s doctoral student, Priya Ratnani with her leading criminal lawyer father’s help, c...