From SAJAforum, the newsy SAJA blog - new desi stuff daily:
http://www.sajaforum.org
Jyoti Thottam, former SAJA president and Time magazine senior editor, has been
named the magazine's New Delhi bureau chief.
Asked why this move now, Thottam told SAJAforum: "South Asia is one of the most
exciting places in the world right now, and after 10 years in New York City, I
was ready to try something new. I can't imagine a better place to be a
journalist, and I'm looking forward to covering the region's stories, big and
small."
You can see the memo from Time's editors announcing her move, a high-rez photo,
links to her 2004 cover story on outsourcing and subsequent appearance on
"Charlie Rose" with Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, a list of recent major appointments
of South Asians by big-time media and much more at
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/06/moves-jyoti-tho.html
Post your comments there, please. The memo also names another Hong Kong-born,
Wisconsin-educated as the new Asia editor of Time International:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/06/moves-jyoti-tho.html
Meanwhile, Jyoti will be doing a live webcast today, Friday, 1:30-2:30 pm NYC
time (11 pm-midnight in New Delhi, her home starting in mid-June). Please join
us for the live stream or a recording shortly after. Details below.
SAJA WEBCAST WITH JYOTI THOTTAM
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/06/06/JOURNO-CHAT-Jyoti-Thottam
Another free SAJA webcast, folks - listen live or to a recording. Please tell
your friends - this is a worldwide webcast. COMING SOON: Salman Rushdie, Fareed
Zakaria, Muhammad Yunus and others. Some of these future ones will be for paid
SAJA members only, so please sign up for membership if you haven't already:
http://www.saja.org/membership.html
See you at the 2008 SAJA Convention and Job Fair - June 20-21 in NYC. Details
at http://www.sajaconvention.org
Join us today/tonight for this discussion - live on your computer (or by
dialing into 347-324-5991, a NYC number) and ask questions via the
chatroom, or listen to an archived recording later. You can send
questions in advance to saja@columbia.edu. As always, you are welcome
to quote from anything said during the webcasts at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja
Join us for a live discussion and chatroom with Jyoti Thottam, a Time magazine
senior editor who is leaving New York shortly to be Time's South Asia bureau
chief. We'll discuss South Asia, US relations with the region, her career and
the state of journalism. Send your questions to saja@columbia.edu
(subject=webcast) or call in live or post questions via the chatroom at the
link below.
Friday, June 6, 2008
1:30-2:30 pm, NY time
11 pm-midnight New Delhi time
see your local time at http://snurl.com/2e961
LISTEN LIVE OR TO A RECORDING:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja
or http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/06/06/JOURNO-CHAT-Jyoti-Thottam
(you can go to that link now and set an e-mail reminder for yourself)
More on our webcasts - upcoming and past - below and at
As part of our efforts to bring our programming to more people around
the world, SAJA is increasing our use of webcasts. We are using a
service called BlogTalkRadio, which allows us to have a web radio
discussion with authors, panelists, etc.
You can listen live via the web at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja
or by calling into a NY phone number: 347-324-5991. You can ask
questions via an online chatroom or live on the air, via the phone
(you can call from a landline, cell, or VOIP).
As soon as the event is over, you will be able to access - at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja - a recording of the proceedings.
This is also available as an downloadable MP3 file for your personal
collection. [If you want to subscribe to this as a podcast on iTunes,
go to "Advanced" within iTunes, then select "Subscribe to podcast" and
type in http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/feed and hit OK.]
As always, you are welcome to quote from anything said during these
webcasts. Feedback, suggestions welcome: saja@columbia.edu
OUR ARCHIVES - listen or download at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja
* AUTHOR CHAT: Sadanand Dhume, author, "My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with an
Indonesian Islamist." Dhume is a journalist, Asia expert and long-time SAJA
member. His book is a portrait of the world's most populous Muslim country,
Indonesia, a land once synonymous with tolerance that finds itself in the midst
of a profound shift toward radical Islam. This portrait is painted through a
pair of unlikely protagonists. Sadanand Dhume, the author, is a foreign
correspondent, an Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an
interest in economic development. His companion, Herry Nurdi, is a young
Islamist who hero worships Osama Bin Laden.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/05/22/AUTHOR-CHAT-Sadanand-Dhume
* JOURNO CHAT: Sudarsan Raghavan, Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post.
He's an award-winning foreign correspondent who has reported from more than 50
countries and nine war zones in Africa (where he was Knight-Ridder bureau
chief), the Middle East, Asia, the former Soviet Union and Central America.
Raghavan, who has won several major prizes, including the Polk Award, started
his career in 1992 freelancing from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He will
discuss the situation in Iraq, his career and what he learned at Columbia.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ColumbiaJournalism/2008/05/09/MEET-AN-ALUM-Sudarsan-Raghavan
[This is a webcast hosted by Columbia Journalism School]
* NEWSMAKER CHAT: Meet Dileepan Sivapathasundaram, a U.S. democracy worker who
was arrested in Zimbabwe in April while helping local groups monitor the
elections. We discussed his detention, how he was freed and his work as a
democracy activist. Sivapathasundaram is a Sri Lankan-American who works for
the National Democratic Institute ("a non-partisan, non-profit,
non-governmental org that aims to support democratic values & practices in more
than 60 countries").
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/05/08/NEWSMAKER-BRIEFING-Dileepan-Sivapathasundaram
* AUTHOR CHAT: V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of "Love Marriage" and SAJA VP
Her debut novel' been called "a complex, moving evocation of love and war — two
ideas which overlap more often, and more dramatically, than we often care to
recognize. Love Marriage is an impressive debut." More on her at www.Vasugi.com
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/04/25/AUTHOR-CHAT-VV-Ganeshananthan
* VIRTUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE: Listen in as former colleagues and
friends of pioneering Indian American journalist Gopal Raju from
around the world pay tribute to him shortly after his death on April
10, 2008.
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/04/obit-gopal-raju.html
* AUTHOR CHAT: Parag Khanna, whose new book is "The Second World:
Empires and Influence in the New Global Order." The book was excerpted
as a provocative Jan. 2008 cover story in the New York Times magazine
as "Who shrunk the Superpower?" [
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/01/world-affairs-p.html ]. He looks at
how societies struggle to manage the pressures of globalization and
how they respond to the competing influences of the leading
superpowers: the United States, European Union, and China. He also
looks at India and South Asia and the role they play on the world
stage.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/04/08/AUTHOR-CHAT-Parag-Khanna-The-Second-World
* SAJA BRIEFING: U.S. Immigration and Business - a look at how
immigration policy and patterns affect American business and the
economy. Our speakers will look at several trends and offer thoughts
on issues such as American competitiveness, the H1-B visa cap,
outsourcing, the US-India-China business relationship and much more.
Speakers: VINOD DHAM, founder of NEA-IndoUS Ventures and former exec
at Intel, where he was "the father of the Pentium processor"; and
VIVEK WADHWA, a technology entrepreneur who is presently a fellow at
Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University,
where he's researching these issues.
Listen to the audio here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/03/please-tell-you.html
* SAJA BRIEFING: South Asians and the 2008 Democratic Race.
A conversation about the 2008 Democratic race, featuring PREETA
BANSAL, former Solicitor General of New York State; a past lawyer in
the Clinton White House and Justice Department; and a member of
several Obama national policy committees & outreach teams... NEERA
TANDEN, policy director for the Clinton campaign; former legislative
director for Senator Clinton. Also joining the conversation: TOBY
CHAUDHURI, former press secretary for the 2000 Al Gore campaign. See
notes and audio here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/02/prez-race-audio.html
* AUTHOR CHAT: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of "The Palace of
Illusions" - a re-imagining of the Indian epic, "the Mahabharata,"
from the point of view of Princess Draupadi.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/03/20/AUTHOR-CHAT-Chitra-Divakaruni-The-Palace-of-Illusions
* AUTHOR CHAT: Prof. Sudhir Venkatesh, "Gang Leader for a Day: A
Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets" [See notes and audio here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/02/books-notes---a.html ]
* SAJA BRIEFING: South Asians & Hollywood - where things stand for
South Asians looking to work in American entertainment. Speakers:
Aasif Mandvi, Manu Narayan, Kavi Ladnier, Aseem Chhabra [See notes
from the panel here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/02/sajaforum-chat.html ]
* SAJA BRIEFING: Pakistan Elections - what they mean for Pakistan and
U.S.-Pak relations. Speakers: Asif Alam, Todd Baer, Kiran Khalid, Anil
Kalhan
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/02/20/PANEL-SAJA-Briefing-on-the-Pakistan-Elections
* AUTHOR CHAT: Ambassdor Kishore Mahbubani, author, "The New Asian
Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East"
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/02/18/Ambassador-Kishore-Mahbubani-author-The-New-Asian-Hemisphere
* AUTHOR CHAT: Manil Suri, author of "The Age of Shiva" [See notes
from the chat here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/02/books-listen-to.html ]
* AUTHOR CHAT: Sandeep Jauhar, M.D., "Intern: A Doctor's Initiation"
and New York Times contributor
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/02/14/AUTHOR-CHAT-Sandeep-Jauhar-MD
* SAJA LEADER CHAT: Sandeep Junnarkar, new SAJA president and CUNY
Journalism School professor
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/02/07/Meet-SAJAs-Leadership-Sandeep-Junnarkar-President
* SAJA LEADER CHAT: V.V. Ganeshananthan, new SAJA vice president and
author, "Love Marriage: A Novel" (chair, SAJA Convention & Job Fair:
June 20-21)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/02/08/Meet-SAJAs-Leadership-VV-Ganeshananthan
* SAJA LEADER CHAT: Anusha Shrivastava, secretary and reporter, Dow
Jones Newsire (and coordinator of SAJA mentor program)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/02/06/Meet-SAJAs-Leadership-Anusha-Shrivastava
All archived at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja
We look forward to your feedback and suggestions for panels,
interviews, etc: please e-mail saja@columbia.edu
Keep your browser tuned to http://blogtalkradio.com/saja to keep
abreast of all our webcasts.
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