Shyam Bhatia is back for a week at his mother’s house in New Delhi. It is the launch of his book on the many years he has spent at the frontlines of journalism that brings him here. He has been an outstanding foreign correspondent, breaking innumerable stories out of West Asia — often at great personal risk. Bullets and Bylines now tells us Shyam’s story as he did those stories.
The journalist’s journalist, Bhatia is engaging and easy to talk to. The raconteur in him surfaces quickly. He is not working but he. . .