Gaiutra Bahadur

Aug 27, 2024 | niemanreports.org | Gaiutra Bahadur |Alison MacAdam |Julian Benbow |Less Arguing

Warped By • Features• August 27, 2024 Reporters pursued the president in a feeding frenzy. White House resistance didn’t deter them from pounding away, day after day, at his credibility. Critics, however, believed the issue to be hyped out of proportion.

Jul 22, 2024 | niemanreports.org | Gaiutra Bahadur

When The New York Times sent me to report on a transformative oil discovery in my birthplace, Guyana, they asked for, and got, a first-person narrative. The opening scene places me at the gates of an old sugar plantation where I lived as a child, imagining the ExxonMobil gas pipeline that would soon snake through its abandoned cane fields. When the piece ran this past spring, I had some explaining to do to my journalism students at Rutgers-Newark. I tell them to scour “I” from their copy.

Apr 12, 2024 | virginislandsdailynews.com | Gaiutra Bahadur

Basjit Mahabir won’t let me in. I’m trying to persuade Mahabir to open the padlocked gate of the Wales Estate, where he guards the ramshackle remains of a factory surrounded by miles of fallow sugar cane fields. The growing and grinding of sugar on this plantation about 10 miles from Georgetown, Guyana’s capital, ended seven years ago, and parts of the complex have been sold for scrap. I plead my case. “I lived here when I was a little girl,” I say.

Apr 1, 2024 | elespectador.com | Gaiutra Bahadur

Exxon Mobil descubrió un tesoro de petróleo bajo las aguas costeras del país suramericano. Se prevé que, para finales de esta década, se convierta en la principal fuente de ingresos de la empresa, en momentos en los que se habla de abandonar combustibles fósiles y de cuidar el mediomabiente, pero hay incentivos para el uso del petróleo en el corto plazo.

Apr 1, 2024 | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Gaiutra Bahadur

MovieTowne, un centro comercial en Georgetown, Guyana, el 28 de enero de 2024. (Keisha Scarville/The New York Times)Basjit Mahabir no me deja entrar. Estoy tratando de convencer a Mahabir de que abra la reja cerrada con candado de la finca Wales, donde vigila los restos desvencijados de una fábrica rodeada de kilómetros de campos de caña de azúcar sin cultivar.