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Killing Us Softly
Bullets and Bylines from Global War Zones
Speaker
Shyam Bhatia is an experienced journalist who worked as a news reporter, Commonwealth and Africa correspondent and Middle East correspondent based for 10 years in Cairo, Beirut and Jerusalem.
Shyam’s talk focuses on the deadly changing dangers that threaten the lives of reporters covering war zones from current day Ukraine to Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Algeria. Many of the reporters who died were close personal friends.
All the narrated experiences and accompanying pictures are extracts from his personal experiences during a 50 year career in the media. Some of the unexpected friendships that evolved, including Yasser Arafat and Raja Ramanna, are also touched upon.
Shyam’s presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Link to his article about Rishi Sunak: Link
Link to his article on King Charles: Link
Speaker
Shyam Bhatia
Shyam Bhatia is an experienced reporter and best-selling author. He was born in Delhi and schooled in India and the UK, later serving as US correspondent and Foreign Editor of the Deccan Herald. Before that he was for 20 years on the staff of the London Observer where he worked as a news reporter, Commonwealth and Africa correspondent and Middle East correspondent based for 10 years in Cairo, Beirut and Jerusalem. He has also contributed to the Guardian, London Times, Daily Telegraph and Mail on Sunday.
Among his close personal friends was the late Benazir Bhutto, about whom he wrote his first best-seller, entitled, Goodbye Shahzadi. His second, subsequent best-seller is entitled, Bullets and Bylines From the Frontlines of Kabul, Delhi, Damascus and Beyond, where he reveals how he was captured and tortured by the Afghan mujahiddin. In 1994, Shyam won the British media’s coveted equivalent of an Oscar, Foreign Reporter of The Year, for covering the plight of the endangered Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq. His last exclusive published two months ago in the London Times revealed new details about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ancestry and how his grandfather was born in an Indian town mercilessly bombed by British colonial forces.
