5 am in the morning. I was in such a state of excitement that I couldn't sleep a wink the previous night. I had to report to the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium to catch a shuttle to Bharat Mandapam on Day 1 of the G20 summit.
Blog: My Experience As An NDTV Reporter, Covering This Second Wave Blog: My Experience As An NDTV Reporter, Covering This Second Wave
Updated: April 30, 2021 12:27 pm IST
When I covered the Delhi riots last year, I thought it was the worst I could see as a 26-year-old: violence, bloodshed, deaths and despair. Little did I know that within the next one year, I would experience even worse.
Covering India s Covid situation has been a struggle but all of us who are in this profession are aware of the nature of the job and this is why we try to balance our profession with the sensitivity of the situation at hand. No matter how many times I reported the number of Covid cases and deaths during my live broadcasts, I was always aware that each number was someone s parent, child or sibling. But what do you do when you know that this someone is now your friend or colleague? This is the question that keeps hitting me now.