What's in a word?
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…
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March 7, 2011
New hope for a son of Libya
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…
February 21, 2011
Baba's legacy
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…
February 14, 2011
Is it a revolution?
I have not posted anything in a while -- I've been drowning at work with the Egypt story.But today, it happened. The unthinkable, really. I never thought that sheer people…
February 12, 2011
Hannah
On a dark and wintry night, the bar at Fornino looked inviting. Warm. Soft candles on the white marble counter. We were going to have just one drink, to warm…
January 20, 2011
'Misery adds to misery'
A year ago, I wrote a blog that began like this: "My heart breaks."I had just arrived in Haiti after the earthquake and the scale of suffering was shocking.A year…
January 9, 2011
Suchitra
"If they answer not to your call, walk alone,If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall, open your minds and speak out alone.If they turn away, and desert…
January 3, 2011
Survival — and love
I first met Falone Maxi when she was lying on a mattress on the dirt. A sheet was her roof. But she liked it that way. Healing from her wounds…
December 28, 2010
A long and winding road
It's not that far from Port-au-Prince to Ouanaminthe, a town that borders the Dominican Republic in northern Haiti. I'd say it was about 200 miles at most.We ventured out Thursday…
December 14, 2010
Protests in Haiti
I have been covering the post-election fallout in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where people tell me they are fed up with a government that has failed to deliver.This year alone, Haiti has…
December 8, 2010
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