Anjan Sundaram Quotes

• Mi propósito en aquel momento era ampliar mi experiencia del mundo y sumergirme tanto como pudiera en acontecimientos impactantes que creía que empezarían a ayudarme a entender el mundo, y a mí mismo, de formas más amplias. Mirando atrás, me resulta difícil imaginar mi vida sin el Congo.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Powerful, Purpose, World

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• Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.

  Anjan Sundaram

  War, Thinking, Helping

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• The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Escribir, Significa, Diferente

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• No se nos responsabiliza de cómo la economía asola el Congo. Los gobiernos no rinden cuentas de las políticas exteriores que ejercen allí. No existen estructuras institucionales para hacer justicia. La prensa es muy limitada. Hay muy poca transparencia. Se encuentra una simetría en ciertas tendencias humanas básicas, y estas tendencias no siempre son nobles o bellas. Creo que tenemos el instinto de apartarnos de eso, de no reconocerlo, aunque es algo que forma parte de nosotros. Hay cierto lado trágico y triste en la naturaleza humana que, en nuestra búsqueda de la belleza, ignoramos.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Bello, Ejercicio, Pensamiento

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• When people know what you want, they can then manipulate that to achieve the end that they seek. It's far more interesting and valuable to bear witness to a scene and make good relationships without explicitly seeking something. You're more likely to obtain a far richer and honest experience that way.

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  People, Good Relationship, Interesting

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• What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can without affecting what I've seen. I want to get a sense that what I'm seeing in a place would have happened had I not be there. Were I to make myself an important presence, that would be lost. The danger of a certain other kind of reporting is that people give you what they think you are seeking. People know what you want. When I was traveling in Congo and Rwanda and people asked me what I wanted, I would say, "Nothing. I just want to be here." And that immediately disarmed them.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in the stories we tell each other. Yet it's relevant to our lives and to our worlds, in a practical way. Congo supplies raw materials for the things that we use on a daily basis. We are intimately linked to Congo, economically. We're linked to it through human events that are occurring there, that affect all of us, and yet you don't find narratives of Congo present in our lives.

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  Imagination, World, Relevant

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• In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.

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  Art, Distance, Creativity

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• My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Curiosity, World

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• I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental aspects of my work is for myself and the reader to see the world that they think they know in a different way.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Pensar, Diferente, Mundo

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• The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Meaningful, Country, Unique

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