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Dine at Taj By Day, Worry about Rent at Night: Confessions of a Lifestyle Journalist

As a lifestyle journalist, I rub shoulders with the one per cent, without actually belonging in their preferred social circles. It’s a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation and I am constantly reminded of it by the Max Mara-wearing, eight-course-meal-eating folks I am surrounded by.

JJ Rankin April 25, 2016

Pop Culture

Goodbye Toni Morrision, A Champion of Decency and My Imaginary Friend

To read Toni Morrison was to be intimate with her politics; and to be intimate with her politics is to challenge, sometimes even annihilate patterns of thought. I haven’t always agreed with her, but she’s forced me to think, think, think. To cultivate convictions and be political.

Sonali Kokra March 30, 2016

Gender

Why Do Women Suck at Negotiating Salaries?

Why do so many women settle for lowball salary offers, far under the value that our experience merits? For all our idealism and outspoken feminism, when it is time to bat for ourselves in the most elementary of ways, why do we consistently fail ourselves?

Sonali Kokra March 19, 2016