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SAJA @AAJA's 1997 Boston Convention

A Boston Beer Party & Midnight Toast to Celebrate India & Pakistan at 50
Thursday, Aug 14 & Friday, Aug 15


Friday, August 15, 12:05 a.m.
(Photo by AAJA-er Margaret Peng)

Win a SAJA T-shirt! A prize to the person who IDs the most number
of folks in the above photo by sending us e-mail. Current lead: 9 (Milanee Shah of CBS).


At the Friday night banquet: Sujata Berry, producer, CBC (Toronto); Debasish Mishra of the India Abroad Center for Political Awareness (Washington, DC); Fred de Sam Lazaro, reporter, Lehrer Newshour (Minneapolis); Ritu Sehgal, national news editor, Miami Herald; Sreenath Sreenivasan, prof at Columbia J-school; Vidya Srinivas, producer, KMID-TV (Midland, Texas); Arun Rath, asst. producer, NPR (WDC); and Anupy Singla, freelancer (Philly).

Not, it's not quite ladies night. Just some of the 35+ folks who attended the midnight toast.



Sanjay Bhatt, reporter, the Wilkes-Barre Herald-Leader and Ritu Sehgal, national news editor, Miami Herald.

Not just party animals: Paying attention and asking questions at the foreign reporting panel.


Freelancer Anupy Singla and freelance photographer Paul Kuroda.

Glenn Proctor, Star-Ledger assistant managing editor, and freelancer Narayan Keshavan.


The foreign reporting panel: Joshua Friedman, UN bureau chief of Newsday, and SAJAer Sudarsan Raghavan, reporter at Philadelphia Inquirer.

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