(Profile from global business vertical profile company Zoominfo, and leading Nagaland-based English newspaper The Morung Express)
Popular
Journalist and Columnist Al Ngullie is today the
only Naga Media personality from Nagaland with the highest index on the
Internet. National and international newspapers, magazines and internet institutions
have published the works of the All-India Journalists Inclusive Media
Fellowship recipient.
Young but accomplished, brilliant, shy and soft-spoken yet an unpredictable prankster, Ngullie is also considered one of the best Reporting Journalists from Nagaland as well as a pioneer of Contemporary Satire and Creative writing from amongst Nagas. Al adores his mother whom he calls the "beautifulest and bestest”.
(Profile from Journalists, News writers' Community, and news houses' authorship)
Al Ngullie is an award-winning Indian journalist and columnist, currently working in the capacity of Senior Sub-editor with a leading English Newspaper based in Nagaland, India. He is also a 'digital journalist' of the international online news portal, DigitalJournal.
His principal beat is political news, policy and government/development-related issues. During the past about 8 years, he has been credited with breaking some of the most significant news events associated with regional government policies, development, and political administration in Nagaland, North Eastern region of India, and even national niche news.
(Some of his recent policy news reportage can be accessed at this archive (click link).
Also, for more than 10 years now, he has been writing columns and articles for newspapers and magazines and internet institutions in Nagaland and India, as well as in the US, UK and Germany.
Achievements
The senior Indian journalist won the National Media Award for Journalism in 2020.
The National Foundation of India awarded him the NFI Fellowship for reportage on labor rights and immigrant labor, in 2019.
He is also one of several Fellows selected for a commentary Fellowship by Panos South Asia in 2008.
He is one of the 10 Journalists from across India selected for the prestigious All India Inclusive Media Fellowship 2009-2010, the only one from North East India, and thought to be the first from among journalists in Nagaland.
He is also the recipient of award winning commentary in 1997 on '50 Years of India's Independence: Achievements'.
He has also been nominated twice for the Young Achievers' Award of the Government of Nagaland.
He is also a graded-professional Resume/ Curriculum Vitae Editor for corporate professionals in the US and the UK.
Career Background
Before joining the News Media, Ngullie worked as a Government Primary School teacher and as a freelance Journalist for several Indian music publications. Mr. Ngullie started writing at a very early age.
In fact, Ngullie is probably the first from amongst the Nagas to be published in Reader's Digest. One of his articles was published in the prestigious news magazine - at a ripe old age of 14 years, when he was a grade-9 student. Around that time too, he was also published in the North East Sun magazine. He was paid Rs. 14 for the RD article and Rs. 24 for the NE Magazine piece.
During his college years, he also taught guitar music "whenever I ran out of money to take that girl to lunch."
In addition, he has worked as Director of Choir of a city church in Nagaland state. Before Joining the Media, Ngullie was pursuing ambitions in Information Technology and was even Topper of the GNIIT (NIIT) Scholarship in Nagaland in 2004.
Al Ngullie has also been featured in newspapers and lifestyle magazines. He resides in Dimapur and currently resides with his widowed mother and "thousands" of "tiny nieces and nephews."
(Profile from Youth Journal)
Besides being a street-wise policy reporter, Journalist Al Ngullie is a ‘dreaded’ Music reviewer, ‘feared’ and respected for his brutally honest critiques on music and musicians in Nagaland. Although young at heart and age, his contemporaries and friends describe him, his wide following of all ages in Nagaland and overseas simply love him for who he is and his writings. Al Ngullie describes himself as “lazy” and an “undefeatable pork curry-lover.”
Apart from his chief beat - reporting on political, policy and developmental issues - he is also an avid music 'enthusiast'. His works on music groups in Nagaland, mainland India and prominent Pop personalities in the US and Europe have been published in both the print and internet Institutions over the years.
Some of the prominent entertainment and artistic personalities he has Reported on/Interviewed/Reviewed albums of, include Progressive Metal giants Dream Theater, Progressive Metal pioneers Watchtower, European Symphonic Metal superstars Epica and Nightwish, 80s hard rock band White Lion, Christian rock band Petra, Country music hero Bobby Cash, John Schlitt among several score others.
He has also reported on the Jazz music scene in Australia, on street couture and fashion trends in New York, US and back home, on Indian rock giants such as Parikrama, among scores of other musical/entertainment personalities.
Apart from his chief beat - reporting on political, policy and developmental issues - he is also an avid music 'enthusiast'. His works on music groups in Nagaland, mainland India and prominent Pop personalities in the US and Europe have been published in both the print and internet Institutions over the years.
Some of the prominent entertainment and artistic personalities he has Reported on/Interviewed/Reviewed albums of, include Progressive Metal giants Dream Theater, Progressive Metal pioneers Watchtower, European Symphonic Metal superstars Epica and Nightwish, 80s hard rock band White Lion, Christian rock band Petra, Country music hero Bobby Cash, John Schlitt among several score others.
He has also reported on the Jazz music scene in Australia, on street couture and fashion trends in New York, US and back home, on Indian rock giants such as Parikrama, among scores of other musical/entertainment personalities.
Straight From The Horse's Mouth
Hi, I'm just another guy, an ordinary man with simple tastes - with a penchant for blowing up every penny of my salary on branded stuff :). I am very fair - which invariably provide my buddies and friends with lots of Fair-and-Lovely jokes. And to my girl-friends? Lots of jealousy:)
Oh, I love my Mom - the mostest beautifullest and bestest person ever. But she is rankled 2nd after God. The third bestest? Her name you won't hear from my lips :)
In the place I come from, there are no dreams. That's one reason my most precious qualification is the one from the School of Hard Knocks.
Education? Oh no, I survived education actually. So never really bothered about getting any. But I do have some degrees, some college this and some English / editing / technical media language blah and blah - but they are so totally boring so I'll tell you about them some other day.
You know, there are lots more to in life to beat, and where I am today isn't anything. But I can tell you a few things, if you ask me.
Interests
Reading, writing and music are my passions. Collecting vintage publications and coins, Philately, and blogging are some more. Did I mention music? Oh, here I want to brag: I own about 4, 000 music albums. At least 1, 038 of them progressive metal.
Music
I like, love and listen to any sound that sounds good. However, if you ask me to go figure my picks. To make your job easier I am into Progressive Metal genres (Prog/progressive Goth/power-Death/Symphonic and especially European Goth) are my "forte."
Indian classical musicians
Nandan Mehta,
Pandit Ravi Shankar and
Pandit Udhaynaranayan and
Indian Carnatic fusion music are some more.
Have you heard of Indian Classical and Jazz guitarist Prasanna? I like Jazz (No, not Sting stuff) but I believe Blues (You oughtta listen to
Jimmy Ray and Earl Grey,
Tommy Lewis are too great to be even musicians.
Snowey White,
Jimmy Page and
Joe Satriani are Gods.
Michelle Branch,
Venessa Carlton and
Vanessa Mae are the three female singers I delight in.
In addition, yes, from my own state Nagaland post-Jazz singer Senti Toy, Original Fire (OFF), Diatribe, and Divine Connection are the ones.
Television
I have no Favorites. If it is good, I watch them. SO basically I like the ones that are good..:) I am more into
Discovery
National Geographic
CNN and BBC political desk
Animal Planet and Travel & Living.
Well, you might want to know I enjoy Tom & Jerry and The Pink Panther. Huge fan of Donald Duck I am. Now stop grinning.
Books
What do you mean favorite? Books cannot be favorites. You have to love them, be passionate about them and adore them singularly. Every book in my private library is my favorite. There. The Bible is my favoritestest book.
Yeah, God rocks.
