March , 2009
It's all relative, beta Varun
It's all relative, beta Varun I am a younger child so I know. My elder sister was always having to pull me back from the brink of doing something outrageous, constantly aware that my next escapade would be even more so. It's a younger child thing. Younger kids get less of their parent's attention: they come into the world with the odds of competing exactly double that of their elder siblings. And face about half of their parents resolve' in disciplining them too. They learn quickly that they need to scream louder to be heard, but they can also get away with a lot more as a result- and lets face it, more often than not, they are cuter. A few years ago, I would use the simile to explain Pakistan's problem with India when it cried foul over Bush's announcement of the Indo-US nuclear deal.....




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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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