It's not the end of the world, finds Sunday MiD DAY. This group of professionals is treating it as the break they never had travelling, sailing, getting fit or spending time with their families

HE begins the day with two hours of gym, catches up on his reading and goes sailing every alternate day during the golden afternoons. On other days, he swims or enjoys a sauna session. Broadcast journalist Dharmesh Thakkar says that just a month ago, this would have been all a dream. Dharmesh began work, sometimes as day was breaking at 6 am and almost always wound up at midnight, with even weekends nonexistent. "I was on the crime beat, so stories happened late at night," he explains.

Dharmesh Thakkar finally has the time to pusue his passion for sailing

When Dharmesh learnt that his TV news channel was letting him go nearly a month ago, he decided to look at it from the bright side. "I kept crazy hours. Now I have more time for family. Since my company gave me a good compensation package of Rs 5 lakh, I've been thinking up ways to spend it," he says cheerily. Dharmesh says he's not applying for a job for the next three months this is his sabbatical from work, even though it came after he was made redundant.

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