PERSONAL
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan, seen in the picture, is a funny, demented young guy. Forever a source of laughter, and the butt of jokes, he is almost loved by all.
He is a copywriter waiting to make it big in the bad, incestuous world of advertising. He believes in free market economics, libertarian thought, absolutely no government, and sometimes in a being/person/entity bigger and better than him. Not always!
He believes in the power of blogs and other forums to create a new social order. That is generally when he is not having debates with his friends about the efficiency of governments. (He is known to take the route that is called anarchy)
He considers writing, reading, blogging and P.G Wodehouse his biggest passions. Bikes, Beaches, Rain, getting ridiculed and returning the compliment come next.
Jumping out of his skin, tossing and turning in bed, typing away at keyboards are how he relaxes, and keeps active.
ChandraChoodan swears by these books
Kalki | Ponniyin Selvan, Parthipan Kanavu
Ayn Rand | Fountain Head, Capitalism, the Unknown ideal
Richard Bach | One, Illusions, Strangers to the Ground
Nevil Shute | A
town like Alice, Beyond the Black Stump
Devan | CID Chandru, Justice Jaganathan
P.G Wodehouse | The Old Reliable, Sam the Sudden, Piccadilly Jim, Pigs have wings
PROFESSIONAL
ChandraChoodan's a thorough professional, in that he has worked in more agencies than you can shake a stick at. In the big bad world of advertising, (though no one knows why it's big and bad), a professional is known by the number of people he, or even she, disagrees with. And having worked for a good three years, ChandraChoodan has quite a lot of people he can call up on a Sunday evening and disagree with.
Our protagonist first started agency life in an agency called O&M. Having spent some time there as a trainee writer, and not being able to agree on what to disagree with, he quit. ChandraChoodan then went on to do a very short stint in a place called Contract. After a thoroughly fulfilling two weeks there, ChandraChoodan vegetated at home and worked at freelance journalism, freelance copywriting, and freelance web-development and content creation.
And then, the unimaginable happened in the life of ChandraChoodan. A person saw the hidden worth of our hero and gave him his biggest break. ChandraChoodan was hired as a trainee copywriter in a rocking agency called Euro RSCG. Truth always triumphs, and the good guy can never be kept down for long. ChandraChoodan soon was able to prove his worth, and began to be promoted. He now had, wonders of wonders, a recognizable body of work, and even a designation. In fact, he had official e-mail. ChandraChoodan, now with a solid founding and his bosses' support and encouragement, began disagreeing with a lot more people. Having put in the best 1 year and 3 months of his life in the agency, ChandraChoodan began to look for greener pastures.
Greener pastures they were. From this side of the fence. JWT, the pasture was called. But ChandraChoodan, not willing to talk much of the place, decided to move on. Last heard from, our hero is consolidating his position and preparing to attack, a la the crouching tiger, at a smaller, and better agency called Fifth Estate.