<img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://evilreporterchick.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/deirdre32.jpg?w=300" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616037014890889698" />We meet Deirdre Stoelze Graves in Casper on a day when the clouds have given way to…
From Denver airport, we drive to Steamboat Springs -- a place that is as pretty as its name sounds. The slopes are closed for the summer but plenty of people…
Valerie Boyd is one of the strongest women I know. Fiercely independent, passionate in her defending her views. Certainly, an inspiration to me, ever since I met her years ago…
I made it through Mother's Day. I thank birthday celebrations for Rabindranath Tagore for keeping the tears at bay. Well, most of the time, anyway.My mother died 10 years ago.…
Michel Martelly, bad-boy musician, is Haiti's next president, according to preliminary results released Monday. He called himself an outsider to Haiti's corrupt political machine and when I met him at…
Anniversary stories are common in journalism. A year ago in Haiti, an earthquake devastated the country... Anniversaries a great peg to revisit stories. Number 10 is a big one and…
Today is the eight anniversary of the Iraq war.That fact got lost in all the breaking news, most significantly, the U.S. use of force against Libya. It reminded me of…
Journalists in newsrooms across the globe have been grappling with the language they use in telling the story of the Libyan uprising.It's not Tunisia or Egypt. The unrest there has…
This is Bashir Al Megaryaf. He's holding a poster demanding the release of his father, imprisoned in a Libyan jail for two decades. Bashir was only 1 when his father…
A new book of my father's writings was released last week. "The Selected Works of Debabrata Basu" was compiled by Anirban Dasgupta, one of my father's former Ph.D students who…
