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 witness to a scene and make good relationships without explicitly seeking something. You're more… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
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 a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way,… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
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… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could in powerful… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
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… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
