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The following is a list of people who have spoken individually at monthly SAJA events across the U.S. The 100 or so speakers that have appeared at each of our annual conventions are listed in each year's convention page. There's also a separate listing of all those who have spoken at panels at our monthly meetings
  1. Aladdin, stand-up comic (May 1998)
  2. Krishnan Anantharaman, asst. foreign editor, The Wall Street Journal (March 2000)
  3. Mani Shankar Aiyar, columnist, India Today (Nov 1997)
  4. Stephen Alter, author (Nov 2000)
  5. Vijay Amritraj, tennis star-turned-media entrepreneur (May 1998 Annual Dinner)
  6. Terry Anderson, former AP Middle East bureau chief (Oct 1996)
  7. Priya Bala, stand-up comic (Dec 1999)
  8. Radha Basu, CEO of Support.com (Sep 2000)
  9. Jagdish Bhagwati, leading expert on world trade (Jan 2000 & April 2001)
  10. Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer (July 1996)
  11. Mervin Block, boradcast writing coach (June 2001)
  12. Peter Bhatia, executive editor, The Oregonian (Aug 1997 & May 2001)
  13. Satinder Bindra, CNN South Asia bureau chief (Jan 2002)
  14. Marina Budhos, author and journalist (June 1999)
  15. Elisabeth Bumiller, features writer, The New York Times (May 1996)
  16. John F. Burns, New Delhi bureau chief, New York Times (May 1997)
  17. Ian Buruma, author and NY Review of Book & NYT Mag writer (Dec 2001)
  18. John Bussey, foreign editor, The Wall Street Journal (Apr 1996)
  19. Vikram Chandra, author, Red Earth & Pouring Rain (Jan 1998 - DC)
  20. Subrata Chakravarty, asst. managing editor, Fobes (June 1994)
  21. Dave Churbuck, editor-in-chief, Forbes Digital Tool (June 1998)
  22. Emily Church, NY bureau chief, CBS Marketwatch (June 1998)
  23. Steve Coll, managing editor, The Washington Post (June 1999 - DC)
  24. Ann Compton, chief Washington correspondent, ABCNews.com (May 2000 - DC)
  25. Ken Cooper, former South Asia bureau chief, The Washington Post (April 1999 - DC)
  26. Barbara Crossette, UN bureau chief, The New York Times (Nov 1994)
  27. Anita Desai, author, Fire on the Mountain, In Custody, et al (Sep 1997)
  28. Kiran Desai, author, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (April 1998)
  29. Daljit Dhaliwal, anchor, ITN World News on PBS (June 1999 Annual Dinner)
  30. Kanak Dixit, editor, Himal, Nepal (Jan 2000)
  31. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author (Feb1999 & Feb 2002)
  32. Lou Dobbs, anchor, CNN business news (May 1997 Annual Dinner)
  33. Dinesh D'Souza, author, The End of Racism (Feb 1996 & Dec 2000)
  34. Tenaz Dubash, filmmaker, "In the Footsteps of Our Forefathers" (Nov 2000)
  35. Siddharth Dube, author, In the Land of Poverty (April 1999, April 2000)
  36. Marc Frons, editor-in-chief, SmartMoney Interactive (June 1998)
  37. Sumit Ganguly, author and professor, Hunter College (Sept. 1998)
  38. Edward Gargan, Hong Kong bureau chief, New York Times (Apr 1994) & Asia bureau chief, Newsday (Feb 2002)
  39. Amitav Ghosh, author (Nov 1995 & Feb 2001)
  40. I.K. Gujral, former prime minister of India (March 2000)
  41. Mohsin Hamid, author, Moth Smoke (April 2000)
  42. Pete Hamill, author and journalist (Nov 1998)
  43. Susan Hedges, former New Delhi correspondent, ABC Radio (Sep 1995)
  44. Yusuf Jameel, noted Kashmiri journalist (Nov 1996)
  45. Joseph Jett, author, Black & White on Wall Street (April 1999)
  46. Raj Kamal Jha, author, The Blue Bedspread (June 2000)
  47. Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (Sep 1996)
  48. Mira Kamdar, author (Nov 2000 & April 2001)
  49. Amrit Kakaria, former India Today bureau chief, NY (March 2000)
  50. Dave Kansas, editor-in-chief, TheStreet.com (June 1998)
  51. Dr. Ullas Karanth, tiger expert
  52. Feroz Khan, theater director (May 1998)
  53. Shah Rukh Khan, actor (Sept 2001)
  54. Surina Khan, executive director, Int'l Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Fndn (April 2001)
  55. Rahul Khanna, actor, "Earth" (Aug 1999)
  56. Lee Kravitz, director of new media, Scholastic Inc (Feb. 1995)
  57. Amitava Kumar, author, Passport Photos (Feb 2001)
  58. Jhumpa Lahiri, author (June 1999)
  59. Mara Liasson, White House correspondent, NPR (May 1998 - DC)
  60. David Lockwood, UNDP Afghan rebuilding program (Feb 2002)
  61. Vijai Maheshwari, Moscow-based freelancer (March 1996)
  62. Deepa Mehta, director, "Earth" & "Fire" (Aug 1999)
  63. Suketu Mehta, freelance writer (March 1996)
  64. Ved Mehta, author and New Yorker essayist (Dec. 2001)
  65. Kavita Menon, Asia coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists (May 1999)
  66. Zia Mian, nuclear physicist, Princeton University (Sept. 1998)
  67. James W. Michaels, editor, Forbes (Jan. 1995)
  68. Gail Milner, president, Financial Women's Association (June 1995)
  69. Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News (July 1998)
  70. Anis Mirza, retired Pakistani journalist (May 1999)
  71. Jugnu Mohsin, publisher, The Friday Times (Nov 1999)
  72. Michael Moran, foreign editor, MSNBC (Oct 1998)
  73. Mike Morrison, head of operations, Bloomberg London (March 2000-DC)
  74. Abdul Hakeem Mujahid, ambassador of the Taliban (Jan. 1999)
  75. Shiv Mukherjee, press minister, Embassy of India, Wash., DC (Jan 1996)
  76. M.B. Naqvi, Pakistani columnist (May 1999)
  77. Smita Narula, Asia director, Human Rights Watch (March 2000)
  78. Kevin Noblet, deputy foreign editor, Associated Press (Sept 1997)
  79. Phil Oldenburg, associate director, Columbia Southern Asian Institute (May 1999)
  80. Michael Oreskes, Washington bureau chief, The New York Times (Feb 1999 -DC)
  81. Arthur Pais, editor, ThinkIndia.com (April 2000)
  82. Suneeta Peres Da Costa, author, Homework (Oct 1999)
  83. Vijay Prashad, author, The Karma of Brown Folk
  84. Joshua Quittner, technology writer, Time (Feb 1995)
  85. N. Ram, editor, Frontline (Oct 2000)
  86. N. Ravi, editor, The Hindu (Nov 2000)
  87. Ahmed Rashid, author, Taliban (April 2000)
  88. Richard Robbins, senior producer, Dark Horizon: India, Pakistan & the Bomb (March 2000)
  89. Arundhati Roy, author and activist (Nov 1999)
  90. P. Sainath, author, Everyone Loves a Good Drought (Nov 1994, Sep 2000)
  91. Ed Sanctis, executive producer, NBC Interactive Media (Feb 1995)
  92. Philip Scheffler, executive editor, 60 Minutes (March 1997)
  93. Adam Schoenfeld, news director, Jupiter Communications (Feb 1995)
  94. Najam Sethi, editor, The Friday Times (Nov 1999)
  95. Naseeruddin Shah, actor (May 1998)
  96. Kamila Shamsie, author (Nov 2000)
  97. Akhil Sharma, author & banker (Sep 2000)
  98. Bapsi Sidhwa, author, "Cracking India" and "Ice Candy Man" (Aug 1999)
  99. Simon Singh, author, Fermat's Enigma & The Code Book (Sep 1999, Sep 2000)
  100. Tara Sinha, "The mother of Indian advertising" (April 1995)
  101. Santosh Sivan, director, "The Terrorist" (Sept. 2001)
  102. Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism professor (Nov 2000)
  103. Gloria Steinem, founding editor, Ms. magazine (Nov 1996)
  104. Manil Suri, author, The Death of Vishnu (Jan 2001)
  105. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, architect of India's green revolution (June 1996)
  106. Soonia Taraporevala, screenwriter and photographer (May 2001)
  107. Valmik Thapar, tiger expert
  108. Shashi Tharoor, author & senior UN official (Feb 1996, July 1997, Sept 2001, Oct 2001)
  109. Seymour Topping, administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes (Feb 1998)
  110. Tunku Varadarajan, New York bureau chief, London Times (Aug 1997)
  111. Abraham Verghese, physician and distinguished author (Sept 1998 & 1999)
  112. Vijai, stand-up comic (Dec 1999)
  113. Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, author, Motherland (March 2001)
  114. Richard Waters, New York bureau chief, Financial Times (Aug. 1996)
  115. Peter Weiss, founder, Intl Assn of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (Sept 1998)
  116. Steve Weisman, editorial board member, New York Times (May 1996)
  117. Michael Williams, asst. foreign editor, The Wall Street Journal (Sept 1998)
  118. Frank Wisner, former US ambassador to India (March 1998)
  119. Mohsin Zaheer, NY correspondent, Sada-e-Pakistan (March 2000)
  120. Fareed Zakaria, managing editor, Foreign Affairs (Mar 1995) & Managing editor, Newsweek International (June 2001 - SAJA Convention)
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Annual Conventions & Dinners

Holiday & Other Parties

2001: SAJA-NY Annual Holidat Party (12/12/01)
2000: SAJA-NY Annual Holiday Party (12/13/00)
1999: SAJA-NY Annual Holiday Party with Vijai & Priya Bala, comediennes (12/14/99)

Farewell for Naresh Fernandes (Oct 2001)
Joint SAJA-DC & AAJA Mixer (Oct 2001)
Basement Bhangra benefit for SAJA Scholarship Fund (July 2001)

Panels & Conferences

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