#JLF 2016: The Frontline Club

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Channel: Jaipur Literature Festival · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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David Grossman, Christina Lamb, Don McCullin and Samanth Subramanian, moderated by Suhasini Haider

Hollywood has long glamourised the war journalist as a hard-drinking chancer, taking extreme risks to get the big Pulitzer-winning front-page spread. Here, acclaimed correspondents Christina Lamb and Samanth Subramanian discuss the reality of a different kind of ‘frontline’ alongside legendary conflict photographer Don McCullin and Israeli novelist David Grossman.

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