The personal cost of war journalism

Originally published as a shorter piece in Granta under the title, "A place on earth: Scenes from a war", Sundaram's reportage won the 2015 Frontline Club Award

A Marriage in Wartime

Author: Anjan Sundaram

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: Rs 699   
Pages: 208

Anjan Sundaram, war correspondent, has made a home in Shippagan, a small coastal town in Canada, with his wife Nat – also a war correspondent once, whom he had met in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – and their newborn daughter, Raphaëlle. Despite being an outsider to Acadian life and unaccustomed to harsh winters, having grown up in Dubai, he found comfort in the love and security of his family. But he is at heart a journalist, making it harder for him to accept a