February , 2006
Chasing Deve Gowda
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Here's a look at the quirky world of the journalist, all those hours in between getting that interview or finishing a story. These photographs were taken over two days when we were shadowing former Prime Minister Deve Gowda in Delhi. Gowda may be old, but he can run when he needs to - more than once he eluded us, either pretending he wasn't at his Delhi residence or taking the back door out of the house! 5 Safdarjung Lane, 9 am, 24th Jan 2006 Gowda has just rushed in from Bangalore, but his guards aren't letting us in. And of couse, we're very, very keen to get him to talk. Why? Because his son Kumaraswamy walked out of the Congress-led govt in Karnataka to court the BJP with 46 MLA's. Our humble farmer wasn't too happy about the JD (S) joining hands with the saffron alliance, atleast publicly. ....
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H R Venkatesh is News Editor-Anchor at CNN-IBN. He has just returned from the University of Oxford where he completed an M Sc in Contemporary India as a Shell-Chevening Scholar. He has 9 years’ experience in TV news having worked in several positions. He began as a Business Correspondent at CNBC India in Mumbai where he was asked to report on – hold your breath – the cement, steel and shipping industries. Numbed by two years as an ‘old economy’ reporter, he moved to cover sport at Headlines Today in Delhi. As cricket correspondent he travelled with the Indian cricket team for two years. Highlights from this stint include watching Sachin Tendulkar complete his 10,000th test run, interviewing Sourav Ganguly 18 times and Shane Warne at least 15 times (not so much due to his persistence as to the fact that the duo were contractually bound to do the interviews), and watching Australia conquer the final frontier. Numbed yet again, by the realization that the best way to appreciate sport is to NOT report on it, he moved towards covering politics. Along the way, he began presenting news and moved to CNN-IBN as it was preparing to launch in 2005. He spent the next few years anchoring news & special shows, and occasionally foraying into the field, before taking a break to study. Although nobody’s given him a prize for it, he is proud to have been the first Indian to present a podcast – the News Junkie Podcast – online.
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