User:Ravi V. Chhabra/About you

Ravi V. Chhabra is a second generation journalist based in Delhi. His father worked for the USIS (United States Information Service) for over 25 years and was personally awarded by US President Richard Nixon for meritorious service.

Ravi V.Chhabra owns first Indian online magazine in collage format that has the tabloid style fnbworld.com. His company Right Impact Media Inc. was started in 2003 and undertakes all kinds of ideation, concept and content. It is also known by the acronym 'RIM'.

His longest stint was with the Hindustan Times, New Delhi for 9-years. The other 4 dailies he has worked for are Patriot, The Pioneer, The Asian Age and DNA. In New York, he worked for India Abroad tabloid and also for India Post, Washington. He has also mentored many B2B magazines and news portals.

He has also worked at the helm with television channels and news portals, besides having edited/mentored leading trade magazines that include niche in the technology, real estate, business & commerce, food and beverages and lifestyle arenas, having interviewed people from a cross-section, to name a few: Larry Sanger,  Steve Ballmer, Baltej Singh Dhillon, Deep Purple band, Balwant Gargi, Shiv Khera, Amjad Farid Sabri, Ghulam Ali, Shah Rukh Khan, Zakir Hussain, Andy Ridley, Judy Carmichael, Didier Lockwood, Kevin Eubanks, Javed Akhtar and Sushmit Sen of Indian Ocean band (in 1987). He wrote obituaries for Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Frank Zappa...in the Hindustan Times hard-copy. He has taught writing skills, creative writing and media studies at leading Indian Mass Communication Universities. Ravi V.Chhabra is a self-proclaimed jazz addict and a Frank Zappa devotee.