Ellen Barry is the former New York Times bureau chief for South Asia.

“Every time you leave a beat—and this is something that I think as foreign correspondents we rarely communicate to our readers—you’re walking away from a story which has really been your whole life for four or five years. And it’s hard to walk away…The majority of us live a story for a certain number of years, and then we just turn our backs on it.”

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Barry on Longform

[01:15] Barry’s New York Times archive

[01:30] "How to Get Away With Murder in Small-Town India" (New York Times • Aug 2017)

[03:00] readthissummer.com

[06:45] "A Newspaper for Its Time" (Moscow Times • Oct 2012)

[07:30] "Lost Exile" (James Verini • Vanity Fair • Feb 2010)

[09:15] "The Russia Left Behind" (New York Times • Oct 2013)

[11:15] "A Specter’s Shadow Returns to Haunt Moscow" (New York Times • Oct 2008)

[16:00] Alice Gregory on the Longform Podcast

[17:30] The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss • DAW Books • 2008)

[19:15] Jeffrey Gettleman on the Longform Podcast

[24:00] "Shooting An Elephant" (George Orwell • New Writing • 1936)

[27:45] "In India, a Small Band of Women Risk It All for a Chance to Work" (New York Times • Jan 2016)

[30:15] "Modi, India’s Next Prime Minister, Adopts a Softer Tone" (New York Times • May 2014)

[38:15] "In Rare Move, Death Sentence in Delhi Gang Rape Case Is Upheld" (New York Times • May 2017)

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