{"id":2970,"date":"2013-09-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T13:38:24","slug":"nilanjana-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/2013\/09\/nilanjana-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggerati of the Fortnight: Nilanjana Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image.png\" rel=\"lightview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image_thumb.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"176\" height=\"190\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><strong><u>Bloggerati of the Fortnight<\/p>\n<p><\/u><\/strong><strong>Current Position and Organization:<\/strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Columnist at Business Standard<br \/>\n<strong>Educational Background:<\/strong><b> <\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>La Martiniere, Kolkata<br \/>\nSt Stephens, Delhi University<br \/>\n<strong>Blog Name:<\/strong><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/akhondofswat.blogspot.in\/\">Akhond of Swat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nilanjana Roy is the author of the book \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/thewildings.net\/\">The Wildings\u2019<\/a> &amp; \u2018The Hundred Names of Darkness\u2019 and the editor of \u2018A Matter of Taste\u2019. Currently, she writes a regular column for Business Standard and lives in Delhi. She is a writer, author, reader and a cat-herder. She started blogging almost a decade ago and previously wrote a blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/kitabkhana.blogspot.com\/\">Kitabkhana<\/a> under the pseudonym Hurree Babu. Her blog <a href=\"http:\/\/akhondofswat.blogspot.in\/\">Akhond of Swat<\/a> is an amazing collection of a variety of life\u2019s happenings, books, wildlife, food, journalism, literature and fiction to mention a few.<\/p>\n<p>Nilanjana\u2019s unparalleled style of blogging is known and appreciated across the nation. She has also worked extensively on free speech and censorship issues in India. Her blog also showcases her interests in various subjects and happenings of life.<\/p>\n<p>One cannot avoid having a look at her website <a href=\"http:\/\/nilanjanaroy.com\/\">nilanjanaroy.com<\/a> which encapsulates her finest thoughts and writings. Beautiful portrayal of thoughts and words, she had put in amazing efforts to add a silver lining to her writing and blogging skill.<\/p>\n<p>The topics like life, books, wildlife, journalism, literature, trends in writing and blogging that she encapsulates in her blog everytime for her readers &amp; professionals across, entitles her to be our <em><b>Blogger of the Fortnight.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/category\/blog-content\/\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a> <strong>to read more about our<\/strong><b> <\/b><em><b>Blogger of the Fortnight<\/b><\/em><b> <\/b><strong>series.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/image_thumb.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"176\" height=\"190\" align=\"left\" \/>Bloggerati of the Fortnight<br \/>\nCurrent Position and Organization:<br \/>\nColumnist at Business Standard<br \/>\nEducational Background:<br \/>\nLa Martiniere, Kolkata<br \/>\nSt Stephens, Delhi University<br \/>\nBlog Name:\u00a0\u00a0Akhond of Swat<br \/>\nNilanjana Roy is the author of the book \u2018The Wildings\u2019 &amp; \u2018The Hundred Names of Darkness\u2019 and the editor of \u2018A Matter of Taste\u2019. Currently, she writes a regular column for Business Standard and lives in Delhi. She is a writer, author, reader and a cat-herder. She started blogging almost a decade ago and previously wrote a blog called Kitabkhana under the pseudonym Hurree Babu. Her blog Akhond of Swat &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/?post_type=post&#038;p=2970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[797],"tags":[800],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botf","tag-bloggerati-of-the-fortnight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2893,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}