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A small farewell note

The columnist on what kept her going for nearly eight years as editor of 'Mint Lounge'

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Reader, your feedback has made me grin and kept me going for nearly eight years (one notable exception was the mean gent who invested lots of time and energy in a long email essentially informing me that nobody cares about Babyjaan. Sorry sir, I know they do). I could easily have kept going for another eight. Editor, Mint Lounge has to rank as one of the top features journalism jobs in the country. Where else do readers appreciate an editor who decides that this week you’re going to get intimate with her favourite sportsman, wrestler Sushil Kumar? Where else can an editor think it’s fitting to end her innings with a 67-year-old poet who has translated racy ancient poetry for a living? Who else cares about the Kanjeevaram sari like we do?

Reader, you know exactly what we are about; you can identify a Mint Lounge story or columnist from a mile away. I believe that you haven’t gotten bored with Mint Lounge for the past eight years because it changes/refreshes ever so slightly every time someone on this brilliant team leaves and every time someone new takes their coveted spot. It’s my turn now.

Everyone around me is convinced I’m going someplace better. That place doesn’t exist, I tell them with my best philosophical smile. Which leads them to that next predictable question: So what will you do? Hmm, aside from take it easy, you mean?

Learn to bake bread in a Kenwood BM450; install all the tech toys we keep purchasing and finally learn how to use them; definitely acquire a fully loaded media player; TRAVEL (who knows, maybe I’ll convince the husband to buy us another One Way Ticket around the world); WRITE, I’ve found myself unable to write recently and I’m hoping that words will come streaming back with a change of scene; be open to new opportunities; Instagram mind-blowing pictures of ghost town Dhanushkodi and other such Indian destinations I’ve always been too busy to visit; scour the world for proof that the future of news is not trashy viral videos; update my Now Reading Pinterest board at the speed of light, update my #101ThingsToDoInBangalore Instagram hashtag at the speed of light, visit friends in faraway places, lose just enough weight and gain just enough muscle so I look fit even when I tuck my shirt into my jeans.

Above all, send off Babyjaan to school and go right back to sleep without worrying about what you’re going to read on the cover next week. Thank you for everything. Keep reading Mint Lounge.

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Published: 29 Nov 2014, 12:56 AM IST
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