A devastating diagnosis prompted a reporter to revisit his past — and repair his mistakes.
Author: ROD NORDLAND
When the Urge to Write Is a Life Sentence
Ahmet Altan, author of the new book “I Will Never See the World Again,” has been imprisoned for life. I’m being treated for a brain tumor. We’re both determined to keep going.
When the Urge to Write Is a Life Sentence
Ahmet Altan, author of the new book “I Will Never See the World Again,” has been imprisoned for life. I’m being treated for a brain tumor. We’re both determined to keep going.
Waiting for the Monsoon, Discovering a Brain Tumor Instead
As a reporter was covering India’s climatic extremes, a medical emergency intervened, and the story became not only about monsoons, but also about Indian society, the human mind and a glioblastoma.
A School With No Heat or Computers but Many College-Bound Students. Mostly Girls.
At an Afghan mountain school, there are no computers, lights or heat. Even books are few. Yet 90 percent of graduates get into college. Most of them are girls.
A Mystery Disease Is Killing Children, and Questions Linger About Lychees
Researchers said the fruit was behind annual outbreaks of a fatal syndrome in eastern India. But local doctors say that theory can’t explain all the cases.
2 Giant Buddhas Survived 1,500 Years. Fragments, Graffiti and a Hologram Remain.
Visitors may end up finishing the job that the Taliban started. A crawl through the honeycombed caves around the destroyed Buddhas is sobering.
Missing Millions Put an American-Funded Afghan College Under Scrutiny
The American University of Afghanistan is at risk of closing after United States government investigators said they could not account for $63 million in spending.
The Kabul Bureau’s Accidental Gardener
The garden is not often the first thing on our minds, as we cover Afghanistan’s long war. I didn’t notice what was going on until I looked out the window in front of my desk on the second floor and saw a hollyhock at eye level.
Taliban Target Aid Groups, in an Ominous Turn in Afghanistan
Humanitarian casualties are on the rise again after years of decline in Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous places for aid workers.