FOOTNOTE: TMV (happily) lived in New Delhi for five months during his senior year in college and then for nearly two years after receiving his masters in journalism at grad school. He never thought of this as a major problem before…but now that he reads it…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.