About Kushalrani Gulab
Having lived by the principle of ‘nothing much matters cos we’re all going to die anyway’ for most of her life, Kushalrani Gulab always wondered why people spent so much time and energy taking offence at every little thing. Highly insulted however, after a veggiewalla at Juhu market sneered at her because she preferred common salaad-patta to his high-priced frilly greens, she finally understood. Frowning, pursing lips, looking constipated and simultaneously highly moralistic is great fun. So now she’s decided to be offended by everything. It will help pass the time till she dies.
I’ve been cleaning up. [Read more]

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I think I shall start a re-reading project and write about it here on this blog. This is for two reasons. [Read more]

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We’ve been having strange weather in Bombay the last two weeks. It’s blazing hot, dry heat during the day – 36 degrees and above (yesterday it was nearly 40 degrees and it feels like 43 degrees today) – but night temps have been as much as 20 degrees lower. [Read more]

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 6:52 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged Bombay weather, global warming, hindustan times, kushalrani gulab, monsoon, news, temperature, weather, weather change
It’s appraisals season and I’ve been thinking about careers. Not mine specifically. Just careers in general. Because I’ve been sitting with the people who report to me (who are mostly very young), asking them what they want from their professional lives, and it made me wonder. What would I have said if anyone had ever asked me that question? [Read more]

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7:21 pm
Filed under Life, india · Tagged career, commerce, Expletive Deleted, goal, hindustan times, humanities, journalism, kushalrani gulab, mass communication, media, news, profession
A few weeks ago, I read a review of a book by a psychiatrist in which he said that the life you live in your head is just as much a part of your personality as the life you really live. [Read more]

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 10:49 pm
Filed under Life · Tagged austere life, globe-trotters, hindustan times, kushalrani gulab, luxury, me, news, non-materialist lives, other me, psychiatrist