The Sikh community in London welcomes the appointment of Manmohan Singh as Indian PM – but memories of persecution run deep. Report from Southall for BBC News, May 2004.
Outsourcing the war
An early profile of Blackwater after the killing of four contractors in Falluja. The private security firm became one of the coalition’s most controversial partners in Iraq and was eventually expelled from the country. BBC News, April 2004
Storming Denmark’s drug stronghold
A police crackdown sets the clock ticking for Christiania, the Copenhagen hippie haven accused of functioning as “a state within a state”. BBC News, March 2004
The man with the diamond-studded turban
A profile of Daler Mehndi, the Punjabi singer who traded his taxi in New York for the bright lights of “bhangra” stardom. BBC News, October 2003


