Braking News [Jun 03, 2010] Choudhary, Sunetra

by Sunetra Choudhury

A candid and entertaining look at hardcore political reporting its also a must-read for anybody aspiring to be a journalist - prannoy roy, chairman, ndtvfor two months prior to the general elections in may 2009 tv reporter sunetra choudhury along with her colleague naghma sahar clambered onto a bus equipped with some club class seating, the requisite machinery to beam out live from the remotest parts of india and a motley crew of cameramen and engineers notching up 200 kilometres a day she and her colleagues travelled through bharat in search of the elusive indian voter lurching into villages without electricity in up, to tribal settlements in jharkand to baripada in orissa and kanchipuram in tamil nadu they beamed out a daily show called the election express part travelogue, part election special, part candid confessions of an inveterate tv camera-time junkie, this book is a delightfully frank account of one womans understanding of why the country voted as it did; and how obvious it

Genres: Nonfiction

312 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2010

Reviews

[Ankit Agarwal · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a sorry waste of time! The author has no sense of language and even though racial spurs can be ok in a literary sense, the book does not offer anything

[Pankaj · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have read Behind Bars by the same Author and it was good. Then i thought about reading the other book which is this one. It looked very interesting but actually its boring.

[Indrani Sen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a lovely sort-of-travelogue. This is two female journalists traveling to Indian hinterlands (refreshingly enough on NDTV declining or hesitating on an assignment bringing up your gender-related-safety concerns is heavily frowned upon). This is meeting a few celebrities. But the best bit is meeting the many extraordinary ordinary people of our country. I am just a little bit more in love with my country now.

I am definitely planning to look up the writer's next book.

[Aditi · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of its kind book written by a journalist at the grand daddy of English news channels in India, NDTV. Author, colleague and crew set off across India two months before the 2009 national election in a big red bus to cover stories from the ground about what people are feeling before the elections. Plenty of local flavour, but not too many details of the before/after election story of the places they visit. The story is told mostly from the author's point of view, but the subject matter is fascinating and doesn't receive enough attention in this travelogue-road-trip book. Still, it's a first step into the inner life of news reporting and its favourite subjects.

[Shrilatha · Rating 5 out of 5]

it's a fun read. recommend it to those of us who hate tv journalists. this book presents the other side of the 'how are you feeling?' story. sunetra packs lots of humor (most of it self-deprecating), so it never comes across like a dry policital journal. but yes, it is an election special, so you should have interst in indian politics to read this, and you should have interest in journalism too, aaaand you should have sympathy towards girls who go thru hard times to find clean loos while travelling in india :)

[Amreen · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're into journalism and love reporting, then yes, you will like the book Also, if you love politics and travelling it will engage you into reading more. However it gets a bit boring in the end.

The part I liked the most about the book is stories that these reporters wanted to cover of a village which gets no supply of electricity but use cellphones.

The different ideas you get on rural travelling ideas and untold stories about people there. Tales of peoples lives and making it interesting with a bit of humor. A good read

[Anuradha Goyal · Rating 3 out of 5]

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