The people who helped me maintain sanity in the newsroom were my younger colleagues, who are not yet afflicted by hopelessness and insomnia. The newsroom, indeed, is a great centre of learning. Stories of field reporters force an editor to reconsider their perceptions and prejudices. I was fortunate to have some brilliant colleagues who arrived with an infectious energy and an inspiring idealism. Brimming with ideas, they offered invaluable insights and worked overnight to keep the website running. Conversations with them enriched me and helped me learn a different perspective. It was Mayank Jain Parichha who kept me updated about the latest developments in the field of environment and wrote insightful stories on man-animal conflict and the possible consequences of the relocation of the cheetah in the Kuno National Park. Conversations with Peerzada Muzamil greatly helped me to understand several new trends ranging from the inner dynamics of the Congress party to global politics. The young man reads a phenomenal range of foreign publications and is a storehouse of information on international affairs. Then there is Syeda Ambia Zahan, Outlook’s Northeast correspondent, who carries the entire zone on her fingertips. Displaying an extraordinary width she writes with an inspiring command on themes ranging from folk arts, popular culture, politics, insurgency, Korean music to displacement. Syeda wrote some of our finest long-form journalism from a territory that’s treaded by few.