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 get a sense that what I'm seeing in a place would have happened had I not be there. Were I to make myself an important presence, that would be lost. The danger of a certain other kind of reporting is that people give you what they think you are seeking. People know what you want. When I was traveling in Congo and Rwanda and people asked me what I wanted, I would say, "Nothing. I just want to be here." And that immediately disarmed them.
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
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
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
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 …
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
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,…
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
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…
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
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. The…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and jo… - Anjan Sundaram
The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and jo…
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