A writer wanted with a passion for World Cinema.

Work: Work is dynamic and will not be limited to a set profile, but would involve a diverse and interesting portfolio of work and tasks. Yet, for simplification, here is a laundry list:

• Research and write synopsis of film in the Palador Catalogue
• Research and write scripts for promos, ads etc.
• Ideate, research and write leaflets, brochures, one-sheeters (for movies) etc.
• Research and write biographies of directors.
• Write content for Booklets to be part of DVDs, assist in book projects etc.
• Make content for Palador website and other web-related activities including online PR, newsletters, blogs, e-zines etc.
• Edit and proof-read various types of content, including but not limited to website, newsletters, leaflets, brochures, booklets etc.

Challenge: The work is highly challenging, and not the run of the types like this run of the mill phrase. Hence, inclination and attitude is as important, and perhaps more important – than skill which can be acquired. Initial guidance will be provided, but once set, the person would have to come up with ideas and work on ones own (another cliché).

Background: An interest in films, filmmakers and the film making process with be helpful. What will be a great advantage, in selection as well as the job you'd do, is a genuine passion for great and original cinema. If you know the Kurosawa, Kieslowski, Godard, Trauffaut, Lynch and Kiarostami of the Cinema world, you're half set into the work before you've started.

About Employer: With over 1000 great films, Palador owns the world's largest collection of quality cinema in the planet. Though it's interest is cinema right now, it has plans to leave its footprints on the publishing and music terrains, besides a host of other domains. Those interested can have a thorough understanding of the company from the website www.mypalador.com. It's incomplete, but you'll have a fair idea. While you are at it, you can also check out the other vacancies listed on the site and if you know someone, please let them know.

Remuneration: It is not a bar at all, for experienced writers and the writers with the right knowledge, zeal and dedication payment will not be a constraint. However, warning must be given that work hours would be tough, and deadline as always, would mostly be yesterday. Hence those with a quick turn around time with good quality would be given first preference.

If you are interested, please send me your CV, and a paragraph on the body copy of the mail, regarding your interest in cinema (especially World Cinema) and why you think you are apt for that post. My email id is: satyen@mypalador.com

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden.

Content Jobs

Sorry folks, Blogger's been causing problems the last two nights I’ve tried to long in, hence have not been able to post anything. Just got a window of opportunity, don't know for how long. So, here are the job posts - of yesterday.

Content managers and content writers required in Delhi. Both freshers and experienced people.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/y8thef

Source: Timesjobs.com

India Expo Mart requires content writers with 10-20 years of experience in Delhi. Wonder who’d fit the bill.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yy7ydt

Source: Naukri.com

Myiris.com requires content writers for Mumbai. Requirement is for freshers.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yy9pmq

Source: Naukri.com

Journalists required for an undisclosed media company. Location – not specified. The only thing specified is a eye-popping salary of 500000 – 700000. Worth a look.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/y2znrd

Source: Naukri.com

Copyeditors / Proof readers required for Cepha Imaging Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/uybrf

Source: Naukri.com

Men, men, these are wanted: everything else will be ready, but strong, vigorous, believing young men, sincere to the backbone, are wanted. A hundred such and the world becomes revolutionised. – Swami Vivekananda.

365 Wishes For You

365 Wishes

Now that the long hangover New Year weekend is long gone and the new year is starting to become just another year, here are 365 wishes to brighten up your year.

May you have as much wisdom as intelligence,

As much peace as drive,

As much love, as pleasure

As much honour as pride

As much patience as speed,

As much beauty as gloss

One understanding for every loss

As much action as thought,

As much friendship as acquaintance

As much integrity as intelligence

May you see the opportunity in problems

May you believe in the possibility of miracles

And the ability to work towards them.

May you know that runs end, running does not.

That often the journey is more beautiful than the destination

That happiness is a conscious choice

That love is more beautiful than anything you compromise

That happiness is different from pleasure

having something to do with struggling, enduring and achieving

and bleeding and crying and sweating.

May you truly believe that impossible is nothing,

That anything is possible

And nothing impossible

That that that does not kill you makes you stronger

That when you go through hell you need to keep going

That life’s a difficult battle in which victory is determined

by what you do when the pain sets in.

That there is no substitute for common sense

That one idea can change your life

and too many can revolutionise it.

That you can dream your paintings and pain your dreams

That the only limitation to the mind are those we acknowledge.

That doubt is often a luxury you cannot afford

And that often there is no better power than clarity

And yet you have to work in darkness

and suffer – willingly – because to suffer, is to remember.

That often emptiness is because you fail to realise

that which is greater than your life – the power to create.

That life is more about doing the most with what you have

Rather than perennially aspire for that which you don’t.

That always trying to be someone else,

is to lose the beautiful person you are.

That it is not for anyone else to make you give your best

That though they say that a hero can save the world,

you'll refuse to stand and wait.

That anything is created twice, first in your head then in reality

That today is the first day of the rest of yoru life

That today is also the last day of the past of your life

And hence, the future, does not equal the past.

That you can be rise higher and be greater than your circumstances

That you can be much much greater than your problems

That if you listen carefully to everyone you meet

At the end you will be someone else.

That you win some in life and you lose some

But as a fighter, you will never be second to none.

That truth and beauty are the same

Love and sacrifice – synonyms.

That sometimes you get more when you give.

That often when you think you have it all,

Is when you realise you have nothing at all.

That often understanding is more important than love

And love, at times greater than faith.

That not all things finish when they’re done

That chaos is the workshop of the creative

That love of ugliness in things

is the precondition to the appreciation of true beauty.

Thatduty is the devotion of the warrior

That only fools fret over things they cannot change

That even with small power comes great responsibilities

That the old is nothing but the future of the today’s new

That honesty is better than sycophancy.

And often the greatest prayer is a simple thank you.

That even the greatest marketer cannot lie to the mirror.

That life is more than a journey from the cradle to the grave

a journey in which you can get busy living, or always prepare for dying.

That happy feet will ring away your darkest blue

That if you want something you never had before

you must learn to do that you never did before.

That only those that risk going too far can ever find out

how far it is that they can go.

That in order to set the world right

we must begin on us with all our might.

That in life nothing happens by accident

And you can succeed only when you tick out failure as an option.

That you are as good as your worst day

And that ships are made for storms, not the bay.

That the greatest end of life is not knowledge, but action

That luck cannot smile on someone with little preparation.

That you are never given a burden you cannot carry

Never given a dream you cannot fulfil.

….

That you are much more, than you will ever think yourself to be.

That you can be all of it, when you realise, that forever is but one moment – this moment.

Okay, so it’s not really 365 wishes. Heck, I was never Einstein at maths.

s.

Writing Jobs

Contribute three articles on textile industry for Yarns and Fibers here:

Link: http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/corporate/joinus/index.php3

Find openings for Indian Express Group here:

Link: http://expressgroup.co.in/careers.php

Business Standard needs editors and managers here:

Link: http://www.business-standard.com/bsonline/job@posi.php?leftnm=11

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself. – Swami Vivekananda.

Freelance Writing Jobs

Today, as the weekend smiles upon us, the focus of the blog is on freelance writing jobs. Maybe you could spend some time going by this in the weekend and apply for some of them. Utilize the weekend well.

Freelance writers to write articles for clients of Cyber Media.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/ymcygx

Source: Naukri.com

Work from home writers for Transcontinental Systems and Informatics. Promises good remuneration.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yb3xpc

Source: Naukri.com

Writers with journalism background required for health website. Freelance writers, but location specified.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/ykyeuz

Source: Naukri.com

Work form home writers to write on Christian topics required for upcoming website. Payment is $3.

Link: http://mumbai.craigslist.org/wri/253479990.html

Source: Craigslist.

Freelance Internet researchers required.

Link: http://mumbai.craigslist.org/ofc/253040892.html

Source: Craigslist.

Management website requires content writers. Pays $3 per article.

Link: http://mumbai.craigslist.org/wri/240409477.html

Source: Craigslist.

If you have faith in the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods and in all the gods which foreigners have introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have faith in yourselves and stand upon that faith and be strong. – Swami Vivekananda

Content Writing Jobs

Conformity India International needs content Writers.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yfa6c8

Source: Monster India.

Jupiter Infomedia Pvt Ltd. Content writers.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yhttrd

Source: Naukri.com

Infomedia needs content writers.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/ya32nh

Source: Naukri.com

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes, and cry that it is dark. Know that there is no darkness around us. Take the hands away and there is the light which was from the beginning. Darkness never existed, weakness never existed. We who are fools cry that we are weak; we who are fools cry that we are impure. – Swami Vivekananda.

Journalists, writers - freelance and fulltime

Freelance journalist for healthcare website in India.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/ynxdjs

Source: Naukri.com

Sub editor, journalist, reporter for magazine in Gauhati, Assam.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yd5qzl

Source: Naukri.com

Business Journalist for Delhi Mumbai.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yegzt6

Remuneration: 40-70,000

Source: Naukri.com

Writers for Journals / magazines for editorials.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yjjbek

Source: Naukri.com

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul: “At my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal. – Swami Vivekananda.