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SAJA's
Upcoming Events:
ANNUAL
HOLIDAY PARTY
Wednesday,
Dec. 12
6:30-10:30 p.m.
@Maharaja
230 E. 44th St
(between 2nd & 3rd Aves)
Dancing & assorted merriment
No speeches!
Door & dance prizes
$5 for members
$7 for non-members
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SAJA
Convention 2002
June 14-16,
2002
Columbia University
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
600+
journalists from around the United States & Canada + Europe
& South Asia
Internationally-known
headliners, superb speakers, panels & workshops
Gala scholarship dinner + opening reception + survivors' brunch
Let us know if you have questions or suggestions or sponsorship
ideas: saja@columbia.edu
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SAJA
guests invited to Oxford Business Alumni event with TUNKU
VARADARAJAN, columnist and deputy editorial features page
editor, The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, Dec. 6
@IndoCenter
for Art & Culture
530 W. 25th Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)
Tel: 212-462-4221
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South
Asian Journalists Association
http://www.saja.org
presents
An
evening with
VED MEHTA
Author and New Yorker staff writer for more than 30 years
Reading
from his latest book: All for Love
"Mehta is a great stylist; combine this with a story of searing
honesty and you have a book
that
demands an intense response." - Miranda Seymour, London Sunday
Times
Wednesday,
Dec. 5, 2001
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Indo
Center of Art & Culture (Note new venue)
530 W. 25th Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)
Tel: 212-462-4221 * http://www.indocenter.org
Tix:
(includes admission and light refreshments)
$5 for SAJA & IndoCenter members
$7 for non-members
$5 for students with ID
RSVP: sajarsvp@yahoo.com
(subject line = "Ved Mehta")
6:30-6:50 pm:
Registration and refreshments
6:50-8:15 pm: Reading and Q&A
8:15-8:45 pm: Book sale and signing
See
profiles, bio and more: http://www.vedmehta.com
The
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Ian Ousby; Cambridge
University Press
Mehta,
Ved 1934-
Indian essayist and autobiographer.
Born in Lahore, Punjab, he was partly educated in the USA and
Britain, and as a young man worked for THE NEW YORKER, where many
of his essays have first appeared. Although he has written a short
satirical novel, Delinquent Chacha (1967), he is best known as a
shrewd and observant commentator on Indian society. His most distinguished
work is highly autobiographical. Face to Face (1957) describes his
childhood and his early struggle with blindness.Walking the Indian
Streets (1963) deals with a journey round India after his years
abroad. A more ambitious journey resulted in Portrait of India (1970),
an epic travelogue in which public figures such as Indira Gandhi
alongside ordinary people. Mehta explores the intellectual life
not only of India but also of Europe and USA in Fly and the Fly
Bottle (1963) and John is Easy to Please: Encounters with the Written
and Spoken Word (1971). Daddyji (1972) and Mamaji (1979), touching
studies of his parents, have been followed by more volumes of autobiography,
now collectively titled Continents of Exile: The Ledge between the
Streams (1977), Sound Shadows of the New World (1986) and The Stolen
Light (1989). He has also published a study of Gandhi (1977). Though
some critics have dismissed Mehta as a high-class journalist, it
is likely that his work will survive as a testament to the human
spirit as well as a penetrating account of contemporary Indian life.
Other sites:
http://www.previewport.com/Home/mehta.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ved.htm
To learn
more about SAJA:
http://www.saja.org * saja@columbia.edu
* 212-854-5979
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