n the beginning…
“But why journalism? Must you be a journalist?”
That was the painful question my mother asked me for the umpteenth time in 1998, as she lent me yet another round of money which I swore I would refund just like the past 6 loans. I understood her pain. It is a question that is as old as the hills for many of us who chose to be journalists at a time when careers in Merchant banks and oil companies were the in thing. I have unfortunately had to explain again and again to genuinely concerned friends and family.

I remember my sister asking me out of sheer concern. “What is it about this journalism? You barely make enough to eat.”
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