It really is a rather good interview. The questions aren’t bad (!) and the answers are great. It was instrumental in how I think about freedom of expression and I remain grateful to Anjan for being so generous with his time and thoughts.

So Anjan Sundaram’s recent TED Talks made me revisit the interview I did with him back in 2016. It’s fallen off the English PEN SoundCloud for some reason but I’ve restored it here m.soundcloud.com/user-67562603/…

Warm and sunny day in Kyiv, the streets are calm, no sirens warning of incoming missiles

More highlights: Hugging old & new friends. Fellows Park and the sound sculptures by dr julie freeman, artist. The BEST main stage talks were 💯 by Fellows – my dear friends Aziz Abu Sarah (in conversation w/ מעוז معوز Maoz), Anjan Sundaram, Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox (w/ Clifford Kapono) knocked it out of the park.

‘A chief paradox of the age is that even the movement to replace fossil fuels requires another round of mining.’

The editor introduces the issue.

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‘More than 111,000 people have gone missing in Mexico in the past six years.’

Anjan Sundaram on cartels, conflict and mining concessions in Mexico.

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Anjan Sundaram and #lilyyeh after Anjan’s bracing #tedtalk about his work as a journalist covering #environmentaldefenders in #mexico . TED Talks #TED2024

There are some who understand that the future doesn’t just happen — it’s made. Among these are the TED Fellows: innovators, activists, artists, inventors and dreamers. Meet the class of #TED2024 . blog.ted.com/meet-the-2024-…

As we all know, #Rwanda is a journalists' paradise with unfettered media freedoms. Sally Hayden Anjan Sundaram

Excited to be heading to my second TED Talks in Vancouver, seven years after my last one! I’ll be speaking about hidden environmental wars and the brave people defending nature on our behalf.

We are delighted to reveal the contributors to the latest edition of Granta.

From mining to Bitcoin, energy politics to psychoanalysis, the spring issue examines a practice as old as human history: Extraction.

A masterful and empathetic narrative written with the utmost clarity of one’s own positionality, Anjan Sundaram's Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime is poised to be a classic, writes Saurabh (they/them).

#Marriage #Society #WeekendReads

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Excited to be heading to my second TED Talks in Vancouver, seven years after my last one! I’ll be speaking about hidden environmental wars and the brave people defending nature on our behalf.

1/ Last month, in an open letter to #Rwanda dictator Paul Kagame, the Igicumbi group of 1994 genocide survivors called on the regime to stop violent abuses against survivors and political censorship and exploitation of the official #Kwibuka commemoration. justice-survivors.com/2024/03/13/ope…

#Breakup Anjan Sundaram is a poignant account of external n internal #war with human face set in Central #Africa n #Canada #goodreads

1/ A High Court judge in Rwanda dismissed the petition of main opposition leader Victoire Ingabire which sought to overturn a ban imposed on her by Paul Kagame's regime. theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Fascinating first panel of the day at SXSW - photojournalists & experts including Anjan Sundaram, Daria Impiombato, Abdulrahman al Mawwas of The White Helmets & Julianne Romy of Global Rights Compliance talk about how autocrats use influencers to undermine authentic photojournalism in conflict zones.

Jaipur International Art & Calligraphy Festival Anjan Sundaram Praveen Swami Shivshankar Menon Antony Loewenstein Hay Festival Full recording of 'The Dogs of War' featuring Anjan Sundaram, Antony Loewenstein, Shivshankar Menon and me in conversation with Praveen Swami, Jaipur Literature Festival 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=5gGnN_…

During the recent jaipurlitfest in #India , I spoke on a panel, The Dogs of War, about conflict, war reporting, #Gaza , #Ukraine and how the Western press often obfuscates the truth.
I spoke alongside Anjan Sundaram Olesya Khromeychuk et al:
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