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New America Media - South Asian
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New America Media is a nationwide association of over 3000 ethnic media organizations representing the development of a more inclusive journalism. Founded in 1996 by Pacific News Service, New America Media promotes ethnic media by strengthening the editorial and economic viability of this increasingly influential segment of America's communications industry.
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Indian Named Youngest UCB University Medalist in a Century
How does an undergraduate top off a whirlwind tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, highlighted by experiments with nanowires and biofuels, brainstorming sessions with corporate executives, poetry readings, and educational outreach to students?For Ritankar Das, the answer, of course,...
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Daughter of an Arranged Marriage
At the age of 19, my mother fastened a red bindi in the middle of her forehead, wrapped herself in a silk sari, and walked seven times around a sacred fire in Karamsad, India with a 26-year-old man she hardly...
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Wikipedia’s Sexist Turn: Men Are Novelists, Women Are ‘Women Novelists’
At 5:44 PM on April 1, John Pack Lambert, a 32-year-old student of history at Wayne State University took a small step for one man which proved to be a giant leap for mankind.And I mean MANkind, not humanity.Lambert moved...
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Extended Families Would Fare Poorly in New Immigration Law
As business leaders roundly cheered a sweeping immigration proposal released last week by the Senate’s “Gang of Eight,” civil rights organizations voiced concerns about the limitations the new bill would impose on extended family reunification.The broad-reaching bill — termed “clearly...
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Student Wrongly Linked to Boston Attack Found Dead
The body found in a river in Providence two days ago has been positively identified by the Rhode Island State Health Department on Thursday as Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since March.The medical examiner reportedly used...
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Bay Area Man On a Mission to Supply North Korea With Wheelchairs
SAN FRANCISCO – Despite a mountain of international sanctions and grinding poverty, North Korea’s leaders have proven adept at procuring everything from the latest in digital toys to nuclear technology. But for the country’s disabled population, there is one item...
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Trial Scheduled for Controversial EUSD Yoga Lawsuit
A trial date for a civil rights case involving the hotly-contested yoga curriculum offered to students at the Encinitas Union School District has been scheduled for May 20. The existing lawsuit, Sedlock vs. Baird, was filed by concerned parents of...
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The Boston Marathon: An Indian American Runner Remembers
Devesh Khatu ran the Boston Marathon twice – once in 2009 and once in 2010. This year he was not running it. But ever since the bombs went off at America’s oldest and most iconic marathon, his phone and Facebook...
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An African American Writer Finds Her Roots in Bengal
In 1896, almost a century before Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala caused a stir by daring to show a romance between a black man and an Indian woman in the American South, a Muslim Bengali peddler from Hooghly married a black...
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Twin Papers Prove Power of Print for DC-Area South Asians
Photo: Editor Rajan George in the India This Week and Express India office.Editor’ Note: New America Media is partnering with American University and other journalism schools to present profiles of ethnic media in their regions. The following story profiles India...
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