Reaction in India

By Michael Sullivan

Published February 2, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the reaction in India to the death of Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla.

Michael Sullivan

Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.

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