Foreign Correspondent : Fifty (PB)

Foreign correspondents travel the world report on people and events and have hundreds of thousands (in some cases millions) of readers or viewers south asia is an especially favoured assignment because of the immensity of the story it is a place where politics and major events unfold on the streets not just in closed rooms this book with its collection of reportage comment and photographs reflects this story it does not seek to cover every event in the decades since 1947 but focuses instead on good writing and historic moments that give a picture of how foreign correspondents have covered the region the collection includes articles and photographs on subjects as diverse as tiger hunts religious fanaticism and the indian enthusiasm for pg wodehouse peter kann’s pulitzer prize-winning account of the fall of dacca in 1971 and barbara crosette’s eyewitness report of rajiv gandhi’s assassination are two justly celebrated pieces but all the contributions bring to life the subco