Dateline Istambul [May 30, 2007] Baruah, Amit - Softcover

Amit Baruah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014310246X ISBN 13: 9780143102465

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007

Synopsis

It was an assignment that was at once challenging and intimidating i was going to be setting foot on enemy’’ territory’ amit baruah was one of only two indian journalists allowed to be based in islamabad during three tumultuous years of pakistan’s history the author recounts with some amusement his family’s experience of life in islamabad society between april 1997 and june 2000—all of it conducted under the suspicious gaze of pakistani intelligence agents who shadow baruah, his wife and daughters everywhere, including into friends’ living rooms he records his frustration at being disallowed from reporting freely on the ground many events that defined indo-pak relations, even as death or kidnapping forever stalks him three incidents haunt baruah the most: not being cleared to attend the funeral, in 1998, of john joseph, the bishop of faisalabad who committed suicide in protest against pakistan’s blasphemy’ laws; being forbidden to view the wreckage of an indian air fo

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 014310246X
• ISBN 13: 9780143102465
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 270