May , 2006
The Prime Minister's Semi-circular Table
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Spies, I was told by my father - are trained to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom whenever they can. Because you never know when your next chance will be. Journalists need the same rules. I had just landed in Srinagar- and me and my colleagues were sitting down to lunch. The aroma of the rotis and the gushtaba (I may be a vegetarian- but am a sucker for Kashmiri curry) hit our table - just as shots rang out. The waiter was startled by the sound of the bullets- but probably more startled by the sight of these three journalists leaping out of there- at a bullets pace. Needless to say- I should have listened to my father, as we didn't get a meal that entire day- that militants opened fire at a youth congress rally. Residents of Srinagar also live at that hair-trigger state at....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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