Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that ga…

- Anjan Sundaram

The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in …

- Anjan Sundaram

I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental…

- Anjan Sundaram

In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and ou…

- Anjan Sundaram

My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can,…

- Anjan Sundaram

We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. The…

- Anjan Sundaram

When people know what you want, they can then manipulate that to achieve the end that they seek. It's far more interesting and valuable to bear witne…

- Anjan Sundaram

What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can without affecting what I've seen. I want to ge…

- Anjan Sundaram

My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could in powerful events that I thought would b…

- Anjan Sundaram