Mahafreed who?

I am a Mumbai journalist. Love photography, fitness, social media, tech, food, and travel.

Make puppets for fun. And Vine videos.

Co-founder The Report

Formerly with:

@dna as their digital editor (What did it involve? Leading a young team, revamping the website's design, thinking of digital strategy for real-time news and social including setting up and popularising its Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Youtube channels, increasing traffic [yes, hate it on the road, love it on the web], ensuring smooth web-print integration [includes everyday ideation for the paper's augmented reality app] running marketing initiatives and contests on digital and of course, writing whenever I can) <<< Pretty long sentence, I must've really worked a lot :p

and,

@timesofindia as features and tech correspondent.

Also a Karateka (Black belt with practice of over 10 years) and can do a few magic tricks too.

I am a qualified teacher. Learnt cooking and baking at IHM, Dadar.

Also a lover of Apple. Cannot do without my iPhone, iPad and now trying to play around with the iMac.

My Pinterest page: http://www.pinterest.com/Mahafreed. I am working on a Must-see places in Mumbai pinboard... do suggest edits. I've also created a board of places I want to visit someday... absolutely love travelling and cannot wait to complete every pin on that board.

My travel list so far: Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh (did Manali to Leh), Kanha (what a beautiful safari it was), Kerala (love the spice and coffee estates), Goa (everyone's done Goa!), Punjab, Delhi (it's a city duh, but heck there are so many places to visit in Delhi) lots of Maharashtra (including the lovely Kaas plateau, forts of Shivaji (you should read my story on how these fantastic heritage sites are being ignored by the Maharashtra government and ASI), Pune and the great Konkan... of course, like every Mumbaikar... I've done weekend trips to Ali Baug, Matheran, Panchgani and Mahableshwar). Also lucky to have visited the ridley turtle hangout in Maharashtra --- Velas beach.

Never been to a foreign land. Hopefully that will happen this year. Fingers crossed.

My Google Plus page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MahafreedIrani. I've created an album of photographs (taken with the iPhone, mostly) themed: Mumbai by night. The idea? From the several times I have tweeted using the word - walknighting. Feel free to suggest edits.

The YouTube channel I co-founded along with fellow journalist Neeta Kolhatkar can be viewed here: The Report. Webpage: www.thereport.in.

On Twitter I am @mahafreed (tweet interestingness, gyaan and rants) and @mahafreed_irani (Used to curate news).

On Instagram I am http://instagram.com/mahafreed

I absolutely love Wikipedia and Quora... try and contribute whenever I can. I chill on Reddit for news.

Mobile apps I use regularly: M-Indicator, Google Maps, Zite.

I cycle too. Try to.

I am currently studying for the NET - SET exam for which I am creating an online base of data that might be useful for other students appearing for the exam.

I am grateful to CliffsNotes and SparkNotes for their fantastic "notes" on English literature.