Ellen Barry is the former New York Times bureau chief for South Asia.\n\n \u201cEvery time you leave a beat\u2014and this is something that I think as foreign correspondents we rarely communicate to our readers\u2014you\u2019re walking away from a story which has really been your whole life for four or five years. And it\u2019s hard to walk away\u2026The majority of us live a story for a certain number of years, and then we just turn our backs on it.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Of a Kind for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@EllenBarryNYT\nBarry on Longform\n[01:15] Barry\u2019s New York Times archive\n[01:30] "How to Get Away With Murder in Small-Town India" (New York Times \u2022 Aug 2017)\n[03:00] readthissummer.com\n[06:45] "A Newspaper for Its Time" (Moscow Times \u2022 Oct 2012)\n[07:30] "Lost Exile" (James Verini \u2022 Vanity Fair \u2022 Feb 2010)\n[09:15] "The Russia Left Behind" (New York Times \u2022 Oct 2013)\n[11:15] "A Specter\u2019s Shadow Returns to Haunt Moscow" (New York Times \u2022 Oct 2008)\n[16:00] Alice Gregory on the Longform Podcast\n[17:30] The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss \u2022 DAW Books \u2022 2008)\n[19:15] Jeffrey Gettleman on the Longform Podcast\n[24:00] "Shooting An Elephant" (George Orwell \u2022 New Writing \u2022 1936)\n[27:45] "In India, a Small Band of Women Risk It All for a Chance to Work" (New York Times \u2022 Jan 2016)\n[30:15] "Modi, India\u2019s Next Prime Minister, Adopts a Softer Tone" (New York Times \u2022 May 2014)\n[38:15] "In Rare Move, Death Sentence in Delhi Gang Rape Case Is Upheld" (New York Times \u2022 May 2017)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices