Letter from the Editor

Suman Dubey in LondonReporting trouble-spots around the world - the big news stories like Vietnam, Iran and Afghanistan - has traditionally been the preserve of the western media, endowed as it is with corps of peripatetic reporters and the funds necessary to bankroll them.The pattern for this kind of reporting is usually for high-powered reporters to descend on trouble-spots at the first sound of a bullet or the drop of a bomb, and inform the waiting world of the latest in events.It is a territory few Third World reporters have access to, limited as they are either by the high cost of reporting the world or, simply, self-imposed limitations in the coverage of world news.In recent months India Today has in a modest way begun to swim against this tide, to seek to inform its readers of events in its neighbourhood that have a bearing on their own lives.Thus India Today reporters were in Afghanistan after the Soviet take-over, investigated the crackdown on Indian labour in the Gulf and were on hand to investigate the dark aftermath of the slaying of Bangladesh's Ziaur Rahman.It was very much in keeping with this trend that Managing Editor Suman Dubey travelled to Britain last month to write this fortnight's cover story on the Indian community in Britain in the context of the recent riots.To put the story together Dubey and India Today Correspondent in London Bonny Mukherjee spoke with people of Asian origin and a spectrum of white Britishers in some of last month's trouble-spots.From Brixton to Birmingham and Southall to London's East End, scores of conversations were logged in an effort to pin down the main currents in Britain's vast and varied Indian community. Added to that were interviews on the telephone and research into newspaper files.For Dubey, who spent two years in England at university in the early '60s, the investigation evoked long-forgotten memories. Said Dubey: "There's a whole new generation which looks Indian but sounds British and thinks British. It's probably the most remarkable change in the last decade."Published By: AtMigration Published On: Nov 13, 2013 16:12 IST--- ENDS ---

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Letter from the Editor

Reporting trouble-spots around the world - the big news stories like Vietnam, Iran and Afghanistan - has traditionally been the preserve of the western media, endowed as it is with corps of peripatetic reporters and the funds necessary to bankroll them.

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