Part autobiography, part reporter’s diary and part history, this book contains a distillation of the experiences and insights of one of India’s finest journalists – Anita Pratap. She braved the odds in the eighties and nineties, sending in reports from the Afghan and Sri Lankan fronts, even though the Indian media rarely ventured in to cover these flashpoints. For instance, interviews with the LTTE chief Prabhakaran, and discovering the frightening reality of women’s lives under the terrifying Taliban regime, are a few of the daring expositions she made. War, ethnic conflict, earthquakes, cyclones, droughts, wherever Anita went she faithfully reported. In this book, she goes into the depths of humanity dealing with the consequences of racial and historic prejudices, religious and sexual discrimination, and mindless hatred and fear, highlighting some of the most important events of the time.