Hindustan Times
Last week, I wrote about coming face to face with Mrs Indira Gandhi in Assam where my editor had sent me to cover elections in the early Eighties.
I was pitched headlong into the thick of real journalism (and, perhaps, real life as this story will reveal) by my then editor and meeting Mrs Gandhi was a bonus. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Assam, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi, Rajesh Pilot
The first election I ever covered, by a quirk of fate, happened to be Assam’s. I do not know why my editor in Bombay transplanted me to the North East – I had neither the experience (less than a year) nor the expertise or perspective to report from a strife-torn region of the country.
But today it helps me to boast that I cut my milk teeth in journalism reporting on riots and massacres. Read more
(7 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Assam, Assembly Elections, Journalism, Manmohan Singh
