Joseph Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, was executive editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and was recalled to the newspaper in 2003, after a period during which it went through a credibility crisis. He has reported from India from 1966 to 1969. He is now working on a book on Mahatma Gandhi’s years in South Africa. In an interaction with Express staff, moderated by Senior EditorMini Kapoor, Lelyveld talks about American politics, reporting, and new trends in the media