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I’ve been cleaning up. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 8:37 pm
Filed under Life · Tagged decluttering, hindustan times journalist, ht journalist, Kushal Gulab, Kushal Rani Gulab, mumbai monsoon
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
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...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
(5 votes, average: 4.8 out of 5) Loading ...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
The last couple of months I’ve been watching a lot more TV than I ever have in my whole life. This is not TV that’s airing on TV here. It’s TV acquired from dubious sources and it makes me incredibly happy. Almost as happy as good books do. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Filed under Life, india · Tagged Acting, direction, Expletive Deleted, hindustantimes, Kushal Rani Gulab, production, television programmes, TV
I don’t like the first of January. I’ve never liked the first of January. In fact, it’s always filled me with horror. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 8:13 pm
Filed under Life · Tagged first of january, kushalrani gulab, new year, new year 2013, new year's eve
[I wrote this in 2004, when I was working in Delhi. It seems as relevant now as it did then. So here it is. Oh, and by the way, some hotels' plans for a ladies' only floor have become reality since I wrote this piece.] Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Friday, December 28, 2012 at 2:05 am
Filed under Life · Tagged Expletive Deleted, female business travellers, hindustan times, Kushal Rani Gulab
I feel a bit Shakespearean today.
I don’t want to sit at the office and look at ridiculous stories about ridiculous celebrities. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Filed under Life · Tagged Expletive Deleted, hindustan times, journalism, kushalrani gulab, macbeth, news, William Shakespear
Yesterday, a friend of mine posted a status message on Facebook about her desk. It had been usurped by her husband, but she finally had it back and found it most inspiring. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Filed under Life · Tagged desk, drawer, Facebook, hindustan times, homework, kushalrani gulab, locker, news
Every day, I wake up at 5.30 am (it’s supposed to be 6 am, that’s the time my alarm is set for, but I always wake up at 5.30 am and can’t go back to sleep), so I can spend the morning reading the book I fell asleep over the night before, drink my tea, read the papers, do the puzzles, eat breakfast, bathe and be ready to leave for the office by 9 am without having to rush. Read more
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Filed under Life · Tagged drowsiness, Expletive Deleted, hindustan times, job, kushalrani gulab, mornings, news, reading, sleep, time, work
I read four books last week that I absolutely adored.
The first was The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken by Tarquin Hall, the latest in the series featuring Vish Puri, India’s most private detective. Read more
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Filed under Life, books, india · Tagged Expletive Deleted, hindustan times, kushalrani gulab, Lily Brett, news, partition, Tarquin Hall, The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken, The Other Side of Silence, To the Elephant Graveyard, Too Many Men, Uncomfortably Close, Urvashi Butalia, Vish Puri
