Barbara Crossette
Barbara Crossette | |
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| Born | July 12, 1939 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and author |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; India Facing the 21st Century, So Close to Heaven, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, India: Old Civilization in a New World (books) |
| Spouse | David Wigg |
Barbara Crossette (born July 12, 1939) is an American journalist. Now United Nations correspondent for The Nation,[1] she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association. She was a writer on international affairs for The New York Times for many years.
Career
Crossette was born in
Criticism and controversies
Crossette has written extensively on India, and has been accused of prejudice against the country.[3]
A 2010 article by Crossette in Foreign Policy magazine described India as a country "that often gives global governance the biggest headache."[5] An Indian journalist Nitin Pai, in his rebuttal,[6] described the piece as a newsroom-cliche, utterly biased and factually incorrect. Crossette's opposition to India's support of Bangladeshi independence has been especially widely discredited for its lack of understanding of the history and international politics of the subcontinent.
Bibliography
- India: Old Civilization in a New World. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 2000. ISBN 978-0871241931
- The Great Hill Stations of Asia. Basic Books, 1998. ISBN 978-0813333267
- So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. ISBN 978-0679418276
- India Facing the 21st Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0253315779
References
- ^ "Masthead". The Nation. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
- ^ "Veteran journalist Barbara Crossette wins 2010 Shorenstein Journalism Award", Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, March 30, 2010.
- ^ Aa Sagokia, "Barbara Crossette dumps on India", IndiaStar: A Literary-Art Magazine. Archived December 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Vamsee Juluri, "Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room", HuffPost, March 18, 2010 (updated May 25, 2011).
- ^ "The elephant in the room"
- ^ Nitin Pai, "Why India is no villain", Foreign Policy, January 7, 2010.
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