Hello

Hello everyone, my name is Pranav Patoori and I'm the newest writer/Editor of the FLAME Blog. Rather than telling you about me, which is completely irrelevant anyway, I thought I'd have this post focus more on the direction this blog will take in the coming months.

At the moment, we are days away from the start of the Preparatory Program for PG Students at FLAME. That means we are days away from the opening of FLAME. My fellow Editor, and founder of this blog, Rahul and I spent a few days discussing what direction we should take this blog. The first idea that occurred to us was to report on everything going on at FLAME. It was the natural choice, and it was easy to do. Finding out about anything in FLAME wouldn't be hard, since we are a fairly small class.

Then we started thinking that that would be more along the lines of something a newspaper would do, rather than a blog. Reporting on things tends to leave a rather dry feel, and make for a boring read in the long run. Rahul and I wanted to keep this blog as more of a human thing rather than a newsreel.

So in the coming months, this blog will talk about stuff happening at FLAME. What it will not do is merely be a substitute newspaper. We plan on focusing more on our stories and experiences within FLAME. What we learn through our interactions with the faculty, the visiting faculty, and the Management. The experience of the admissions process, the wait, how the Union Dinner was. It will focus on what is happening behind-the-scenes. We'll talk about everything from the formation of clubs, the newspaper, to the process behind exams.

What we want is for this blog to become a resource for both current FLAME students, and for prospective ones. So if there's an event being planned at FLAME, you'll find out info about it here. You'll get to read about ideas thrown around, who came up with the original plan for it, and what the reaction/opinion to that is.

I, however, do not want this blog to become a random creativity outlet. A lot of you guys are talented at so many things. I could take a girl named Pankti off the top of my head who writes amazing poetry. There are people on the Facebook community who write insanely deep short stories. What I don't want to see is this blog become the publishing place for those. One, it limits the audience that these people might have, and that would be horrid. The second thing is that it detracts from the main value of the blog, and it's focus.

The biggest thing, however, is that this blog remains fluid. We do not want our mandate set in stone, and not grow beyond that. For that, we need your help. Any ideas, questions, concerns, ANYTHING, is always appreciated. If you think you might be a good writer for this blog, or that you know someone who might be, let us know.

We're also looking for people with pictures, mainly ones with students and Faculty rather than buildings. I think we've all accepted that those are more important than buildings.


So until next time, which will probably be this evening, I'm out.