One Thing That Was Very Clear To

My Job Is To Lay It Out Clearly, Not To Give My Policy Prescriptions.very Little Journalism Is World Changing. But If Change Is To Happen, It Will Be Because People With Power Have A Better Sense Of What’s Happening To People Who Have None.

One Thing That Was Very Clear To Me Is That The Young People In A Place Like Annawadi Aren't Tripping On Caste The Way Their Parents Are. They Know Their Parents Have These Old Views.

In My Kind Of Reporting Work, You Don't Parachute In After Some Big, Terrible Event, Which Is Important And Has To Be Covered, But Offers Only A Glimpse. It's The Kind Of Work In Which You Ask, What Is My Understanding Of How The World Works, And Where Can I Go To See These Questions Get Worked Out In Individuals' Lives? That Was Really The Question For Me: Whether I Had Anything To Add To What Had Already Been Written.

As A Reporter, You Know The Tropes Of How Stories On Poverty Work In Any Country. A Reporter Will Go To An Ngo And Say, "tell Me About The Good Work That You're Doing And Introduce Me To The Poor People Who Represent The Kind Of Help You Give." It Serves To Streamline The Storytelling, But It Gives You A Lopsided Cosmos In Which Almost Every Poor Person You Read About Is Involved With A Ngo Helping Him. Our Understanding Of Poverty And How People Escape From Poverty, In Any Country, Is Quite Distorted.

I Think It's This Congenital Problem With Journalism That We Oversell The Difference We Make. We Make Small Differences.