Sunday, January 30, 2011

hooray! james "water-carrier for pakistan" astill to leave

jan 30th, 2011

this fellow, the economist stringer in delhi, has been the worst foreign correspondent in india since oh... the NYT's john burns, the NYT's barbara crossette, the NYT's elisabeth bumiller. hmmm... maybe a pattern is emerging here.

i understand astill is, finally, leaving. it may be short-lived relief, though, because the voice of NATO, the 'atlanticist' surely has even worse bigots on staff. the previous guy, simon long, was actually quite a decent person, though.

3 comments:

souixsie said...

Somini sepoy Sengupta also appears to have left the Grey lady. OTOH, Pankaj Misra still seems to have his sinecure.

Sujeev said...

Nope! Looks like Somini Sengupta is still with the NYT in Delhi, only she's writing puff pieces now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/arts/design/31summit.html?_r=1&hpw

Hopefully, her car wasn't blocked by a cow on her way to the art fair :-)!

Arvind said...

Sujeev,

The correct netiquette is to call her Somini Sepoygupta. Please follow the correct netiquette.