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Writing & Editing

Good writing and editing result in clear, engaging communication. Effective communication is invaluable.

I offer writing and editing services at reasonable rates. I strive for mutually-satisfying results. Please contact me for work you want done. I look forward to your queries.

I writ and edit newsletters, reports and fundraising proposals; factsheets, brochures and promotional materials; media announcements; articles for print media; website content and popular booklets, fiction and poetry. I write a blog. I also do print production.

I began my career as a journalist and editor in leading, English-language newspapers and magazines in India. I continued writing and editing for non-profit organizations and alternative publications after I immigrated to Canada.

From 2005-2007, I provided technical advice to the publication and distribution unit of a dynamic Tanzanian non-profit organization.

Most of my writing has involved some degree of research.

Here are some examples of my published writing:

Arts writing

A real-life Indian hero

Tantalising Glimpses: Tibet in Montreal

Development, environment and non-profit issues

Articles

Building individual donor base key to success, Canadian Fundraising and Philanthropy newsletter

From caterpillar to butterfly – an article on a women's health issue written for the Women's Feature Service (WFS).

Check out other articles written for WFS. (You'll need to scroll down to Veena Gokhale.)

Support for self-reliance

Joy of Learning

Eating on the run

India's Narmada Dam Valley Project

The Indian media's response to global warming

Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice

Opinion editorials

Why don't you start a reading club?

Are our schools safe for girls?

llustrated storybooks

The final publications, done for a Tanzanian NGO, are in Kiswahili. Each publication link is therefore followed by the storyboard in English

Don't slip and fall on the HIV Road (extracts, 2.2Mb pdf)

HIV Road storyboard

Zainabu's Education (extracts, 712Kb pdf)

Zainabu's Education storyboard

Travel

Destination Himachal

Buddhism

Buddham Sharanam Gachami

Mahamudra Vision

Fiction

Reveries of a Riot, was published in Aurat Durbar, Writings of Women of South Asian origin, edited by Fauzia Rafiq, published by Second Story Press, 1995.

Zindagi Itefaq Hai (Life is Chance), "The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad", Winter 1998.

Published on the web:

Munni

Freire stopped in Bombay, "Cerebration", Issue IV, 2005

Poetry

Indian woman

Carsong

Bloor Street

Spliced Worlds, in "Cerebration", No 3, 2006