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| A Little Something About Me...  Freelance journalist, Mridu Khullar, 26, is breathtakingly good looking, fights moral policing with pen and sword and has many a time been responsible for friends and family locking themselves inside their homes after reading what's been written about them in national magazines. Before reaching career nirvana as a freelance journo, she spent a year as a corporate slave working nine-to-five in a four-by-four excuse for a cubicle. Luckily, she came to her senses pretty soon, and gave up her formal attire and make-up for sweatpants and dark circles. Since then, she's managed to convince editors of Time, Marie Claire, Elle, Parade.com, Women's eNews, Asian Woman, World & I, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Writer's Digest, East West and several other publications to publish her musings. Mridu's assignments have required her to trek up and down the tsunami-ravaged coast of India, live with Tibetan and Buddhist nuns, and interview coffin makers in Ghana.  When she's not lying in her hammock sipping margaritas waiting for her muse to show up, she's reading trashy chic-lit, catching up on the latest in the blog world and coming up with excuses to extend her deadlines. In her spare time-- oh wait, she doesn't have any. If she did, she'd be in Italy, in a hammock sipping margaritas waiting for her muse to show up (it's always about the darned muse!)The best thing about her career: "No alarm clock required." If you're an editor, here's why you should sponsor her all-expenses-paid trip to Paris: 7. She's very dedicated to her craft. In fact, you'll often find her hiding behind the grocery aisles, jotting down other people's conversations. 6. She plays well with others, and most days, won't throw a hissy fit when asked, "So where do you get your ideas." 5. She's almost found the cure for procrastination and will tell you about it... um, later. 4. She's a budget traveler at best, and that translates to: eats once a day, travels in buses that leak when it rains and refers to throwing a pair of jeans and two t-shirts into a bag as "packing." 3. She doesn't mind working with editors who like cheap hotels (the story's always better when a cranky overworked writer with loads of sarcasm writes it). 2. Especially since she comes back and says things like, "Did you know that geckos are actually considered lucky to have in your home in some parts of the country? One woman keeps her door open so that they can come eat the insects. We named the three we had in our hotel room." 1. You don't want her to start begging. It's not pretty. Photo credit: Crystal Street |
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