Hello, and an introduction!

Since many of you are new around here, I thought I will take a moment to introduce myself this week.

My name is Reeti, and I am the founder of Aglet Ink, which is a full-service creative content services firm. A lot of people still believe that Aglet Ink only writes resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles, but we also write portal content, provide research for high profile speeches, train organizations on how to use their social media for strategic communication and work one-on-one with clients and help them strategize for job interviews, salary negotiations and provide strategic consulting for their overall career journey.

The easiest way to reach me is actually my email ([email protected]) and not DMs, or my phone number. Am surprisingly prompt with my emails and rather tardy with the other two.

The other thing that many people know me for, is that I am a tour guide. I primarily conduct art walks in Bombay. My art walks are based in Kala Ghoda and I explore the relationship between art and urban spaces. If you'd like to come on my walks, I am an email away! Sometimes, I also conduct heritage walks in North Calcutta. Calcutta is where I grew up and if am around in winter, it is something I often do.

Apart from this, I write creative nonfiction and some fiction and have been published a few times. My areas of interest are gender, education, human rights, music, anthropology, refugees and ethical business practices. Am especially interested in grassroots businesses and female-led businesses. For my business related work, I usually write under the name Reeti Roy. For everything else, I use the pseudonym Jonaki.

I mentor a lot of first-generation learners and have been working with first generation learners from farming communities for a few years now.

I am also a partner at Sumantrana (which very literally translates as Good Advice from Bengali). I've worked behind the scenes to learn the ropes of Consulting, specifically Strategy Consulting.

Being interested in very many things also means I've led quite a peripatetic life. I've lived in Calcutta, London, Delhi and Edinburgh, and Bombay, which has been my home for the past decade. Work has led me to the remotest corners of the country, where I've slept under the stars, to the finest and tallest buildings of the world, that has made me feel like Remy from Ratatouille.

I've had the fortune of being welcomed inside Gurdwaras across continents and also been fed by Bangladeshi chefs in Edinburgh when they discovered I could speak Bengali.

The thing I hate the most in the world is prejudice and discrimination of any sort. And the people I love the most are my friends and family.

It's very heartening for me to hear words like, " You were kind. Thanks for working hard. You did a good job."

I hope whatever work I do and whatever things I build in future will help people. I have two gigantic, long-term and overarching goals which I will keep to myself for now but share with you eventually. It will be visible through my work, and in the way I live my life.

I am almost insufferably emotional but quite practical at the same time. I like to feel my feelings, but I have a hold of myself in most circumstances and situations. The emotional aspect is my natural state of being, and the having a hold of myself is a tool I've developed over the years.

I like making jams and decorating my notebooks with flowers.

Hope those of you who follow my work will continue to support me and even if you don't, am very grateful that you chose to stay for as long as you did.

(I would love for new readers to talk a little bit about themselves and their dreams and aspirations and write to me, if they so choose. Or leave a comment on this post if they are comfortable with it.)