Daniel Lak
International Journalist and Author
Daniel Lak has spent the last three decades as an international journalist, writer and broadcaster. He has visited more that 30 countries and has reported on a countless number of political, environmental, social and economic issues. Lak was a BBC correspondent in South Asia for 12 years and was based in Pakistan, India and Nepal where he spent years following stories on human rights violations and the horrifying affects of civil unrest. Since returning to North America, Lak has continued his work with the BBC and been involved with the CBC, covering Hurricane Katrina, the 2006 Canadian Federal Elections and a range of First Nations issues.
Daniel Lak has spent the last three decades as an international journalist, writer and broadcaster. He has visited more that 30 countries and has reported on a number of political, environmental, social and economic issues that have shaped history. Lak was a BBC correspondent in South Asia for 12 years and was based in Pakistan, India and Nepal. From Islamabad, he covered the Afghan civil war in the 1990's and he was in Kabul during the invasion of the Taliban in 1996.
Lak established the BBC bureau in Kathmandu, and spent years following stories on human rights violations and the horrifying affects of civil unrest. He has reported on various issues ranging from the massacre of the Nepalese royal family in Kathmandu to the aftermath of the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States. In addition to his involvement in numerous war-torn zones, Lak hosted a number of the television and radio specials that were broadcast in honour of the 50th anniversary of the independence of India. Lak was nominated for the One World broadcasting award for developmental journalism for his BBC radio coverage on the devastating Gujarat earthquakes in 2001.
Since returning to North America, Lak has continued his work with the BBC and been involved with the CBC, covering Hurricane Katrina, the 2006 Canadian Federal Elections and a range of First Nations issues. He is the author of Mantras of Changes, Reporting India in Times of Flux, and most recently, India Express, The Future of a New Superpower. Lak is currently working on documentary films about Afghanistan and Bhutanese refugees, and is writing a new book, India, the Awakening Giant.
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March 2008India Express: The Future Of A New Superpower
In this panoramic view of the new India, Daniel Lak uses vivid narrative to show that the world’s largest democracy is well on its way to becoming not only one of the world’s dominant economies but perhaps the next liberal superpower. Combining anecdote, travel writing, factual reportage, and expert commentary, Lak takes his readers on a heady tour of this rapidly changing land.
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