The South Asian Journalists Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 Student Scholarship Awards. This year we had an impressive pool of nearly 90 applicants, and are thrilled to award a record $36,000 in scholarships. The awards will help students interested in journalism pursue their high school, undergraduate or graduate educations.
Our thanks to the Arun I. and Asmita Bhatia Foundation; Hansa and Ramesh Butani of Darshan TV; Atlantic Media and CNN for their generous support of the scholarships.
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2011 Scholarship Winners:
HIGH SCHOOL $1500 each
Rajeswari Ramanathan
Joshua Roychowdhury
Ritika Shah
UNDERGRADUATE $3000 each
Shanika Gunaratna
Devin Banerjee
Sonali Kohli
UNDERGRADUATE ENGENDERED $1000
Sarosh Arif
SAJA CNN BROADCAST (UNDERGRADUATE) $2000
Anum Hussain
GRADUATE $5000 each
Sumit Galhotra
Suvro Bandyo
Rukmagat Aryal
GRADUATE ENGENDERED $1000
Noor Zaidi
SAJA CNN BROADCAST (GRADUATE) $2000
Nadia Zaffar
ATLANTIC MONTHLY NEW MEDIA $1500
Ashwin Seshagiri