Best of the Week | How global events shape our careers
Mint. I spoke to Kaul for a new series we are starting called ‘Behind the Byline’. As the name suggests the series focuses on the people behind our stories.
The series aims to shine a light on the individuals crafting our stories, revealing the human faces behind the news. (we can link the interview here once we have it published) Kaul has been writing on economics and money for close to 20 years now. I realised some moments in history leave a deeper impact on an entire generation than others do.
Kaul told me he started writing for the DNA newspaper back in 2005, but it was only in 2008 that he actually found the true use of his writing skills. It was in September of 2008 when American banking behemoth Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a chain of events that would go on to bring the modern capitalist system down to its knees. It was the global financial crisis, which affected millions of lives and rendered thousands jobless globally.
This was when Kaul’s clear and approachable writing helped people make sense of the crisis. Kaul isn't the only one whose career was affected by the crisis. I’ve had the chance to work with colleagues from across the globe during my stint at Reuters. Speaking to colleagues there I realised a lot of them decided to choose business journalism as a career because of the 2008 financial crisis.
Just the sheer magnitude of the crisis drove them to find ways of making sense of what was going on, and they ended up working as business journalists. Our past shapes our present, but clearly, some historic events impact our lives more than others. On to Mint’s best journalism from this week: A development finance institution or DFI is a government-owned entity, established to provide credit for
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