February , 2007
The Face of Fear
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"Come quickly" he whispered, "Or it may be too late." It wasn't the way he said it that froze my blood, and made me want to do what he said- it was the look on his face. But even so I knew I couldn't. I was in Ahmedabad covering a second round of rioting in Gujarat post Godhra. That particular morning in the end of April 2002, my cameraman Sanjiv Talreja and I were out filming a story about how riots were started by rumours. A Gujarati newspaper carried the news that Muslims were gathering arms from across the border- and two sophisticated rocket launchers had been found in Gomtipur, a riot-scarred neighbourhood in Ahmedabad. The police opened its armoury to show us the "haul"- and what emerged were two metallic pea-shooters. Nevertheless, the news had set off another night of violence. More people were killed, and 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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