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Some reports compare stricken children to zombies. Others rail against inaction by governments and agencies. The truth is that nodding disease continues to kill children while mystifying health experts.

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Blog: Notes from the field

Just trying to get by

Rhitu Chatterjee
Sandamalgama, Sri Lanka

As a journalist living and working in a foreign country (I’m an Indian citizen, but live in the United States), I like to think of myself as being culturally sensitive and aware regardless of where I’m reporting from. But I hadn’t realized that the pressures of being a journalist can dampen some of that sensitivity. At least that’s what happened on my recent trip to Sri Lanka, where I faced a situation very different from what I expected.