As we enter a new phase in the war in the Middle East, SAJA will be tracking media appearances and bylines by South Asian journos & experts. Please send items in the comments or to [email protected]

On BBC, Ravi Agrawal, EIC of Foreign Policy, explaining what we know.
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Malayalam film and directors have always been the most inventive and thoughtful of the lot - great to see the tradition alive and well

Read this, Trader Joe's List

Wow - didn’t realize that Trader Joe’s were such bad guys!! Won’t be going there anymore

A tiny slice of perfection. Aha unplugged.

Had fun doing this interview.

Vick Taneja died defending a woman who was being harassed. He was such a kind soul, full of life, and had the rest of his life ahead of him. 💔 The video footage is pretty clear. Hopeful that someone will recognize him. Please share. 🙏🏽

D Gukesh soars higher! 🔝

The Indian prodigy defeated world number 1⃣ Magnus Carlsen and reigning World Champion Ding Liren in the playoffs of the Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T Challenge.

He also defeated two-time World Cup winner Levon Aronian, and is sitting in 2⃣nd

Congratulations to S. Mitra Kalita on her award for Journalist of the Year!

Congratulations to Sree Sreenivasan (Threads: @sreenet) on being elected President of SAJA South Asian Journalists Association 30 years board, a full 20 years after stepping down as inaugural President and a dozen years after leaving the Board, and just in time for SAJA’s 30th anniversary year.
Onward…
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (from The Associated Press)

“They’d come, maybe four in the truck, shields over their face, billy clubs, and they’d beat you right there in the field.“ apnews.com/article/c6f0eb…

I want President Biden to hit Trump on this non-stop.
Not only did he call them “suckers” and “losers”, he wanted to decimate the VA, and he will if given the chance.
He doesn’t support the troops.
He despises our men & women in uniform.
And we have to call it out all the time.

Maybe someday, women in America will have as many rights as guns do.

With my mother. Daddy’s funeral.

He wasn’t assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.”

But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism.

He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn’t exist.

Manu Bhagavan saliltripathi (वो बनाये परिवार, हमें पसंद रविवार) I am sure she would be cheering South Africa today. And indeed there are still South Africans who remember when she stood for them before the general assembly.

She was one of the most renown and universally admired figures of the 20thc. She brought her popularity to bear on the most thorny of issues. We can benefit from her wisdom today. /end.

Some thoughts on the news today re the ICJ :

It was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit who granted Raphael Lemkin the legitimacy he needed to establish the Genocide Convention 1/

Oscar Pistorius is an 'Olympian'. Brock Turner was 'promising athlete'.

Weird how violent, abusive men keep being described by their sporting prowess.

Reeva Steenkamp was a law graduate and successful model. And there's no 'what's next' for her.

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In the early 1990s, Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was assigned to document the genocide in Rwanda, an assignment that profoundly affected him.

Returning to his native Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1994, Sebastião hoped to reconnect with the verdant forests of