Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2018 SAJA awards!
The Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding reporting
about South Asia – All media
WINNER: Annie Gowen
‘Blood flowed in the streets’: Refugees from one Rohingya hamlet recount days of horror
The Washington Post
Muhammad Lila, Sugam Pokharel, Sanjiv Talreja, Ravi Agrawal, Leif Coorlim
CNN
Mehreen Zahra-Malik
Shunned by Pakistan’s Muslims, Ahmadis Find Refuge in a City of Their Own
The New York Times
Outstanding enterprise reporting about South Asia
or the worldwide South Asian diaspora: All media
WINNER: Nikhil Swaminathan
Inside the Growing Guest Worker Program Trapping Indian Students in Virtual Servitude
Mother Jones
WINNER: Bhuma Shrivastava, Anindya Upadhyay and Rajesh Kumar Singh
The Army of Women Battling India’s $10 Billion Power Problem
Bloomberg News
Sonia Paul
Which version of Indian history do American school students learn?
PRI's The World podcast
Samira Sadeque
The silent lives of childhood sexual abuse survivors in America’s South Asian diaspora
The Lily
Mehreen Zahra-Malik
Far From Myanmar Violence, Rohingya in Pakistan Are Seething
The New York Times
Tammy Webber and Katy Daigle
US exporting dirty fuel to already pollution-choked India
Associated Press
Annie Gowen
For Kashmiri teen hit in the eye by a police pellet, ‘life is over’
The Washington Post
Devon Haynie
U.S. News & World Report
Raksha Kumar
India Is Weaponizing its Spiritual Tourists
Foreign Policy
Outstanding arts, culture, and lifestyle reporting about South Asia,
or the worldwide South Asian diaspora: All media
WINNER: Atul Bhattarai
In post-quake rebuilding, Kathmandu's carvers reclaim a fading heritage
The Christian Science MonitorAshish Malhotra
The Runners Racing Through Delhi's Smog
City Lab
Rozina Ali
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
The New Yorker Magazine
Outstanding story on any subject: All media
WINNER: Anjali Enjeti
A State of Captivity: Immigrants Detained Repeatedly for Old Crimes
Guernica Magazine
WINNER: Tanvi Misra
The Othered Paris: How Urban Policy Stigmatizes Parisians of Color
City Lab
Neha Thirani Bagri
The US is relocating an entire town because of climate change. And this is just the beginning
Quartz
Outstanding piece of non-fiction writing about South Asia, or
the worldwide South Asians diaspora: All media
WINNER: Neha Thirani Bagri
Roads and Kingdoms
WINNER: Teresa Mathew
Meet The Riders of The Sikh Motorcycle Club of The NortheastBuzzFeed News
Anjali Enjeti
Drinking Chai to Savannah: Reflections on Identity, Inclusion and Power in the South
Longreads
Jennifer Chowdhury
It's a Problem That We're Not Talking About Jimmy Kimmel's Mahershala Ali Jokes
Marie Claire
Sarita Santoshini
In Northeast India, Women Run the Streets
Bright Magazine
Ari Altstedter
A New Kind of Male Birth Control Is Coming
Bloomberg News
Outstanding story on any subject by a South Asian student
in the US or Canada: All media
WINNER: Anish Gawande
Mumbai's Art Deco buildings survive against the odds
CNN
WINNER: Shradda Kakade
Was an Indian journalist's undercover sting justified? After a suicide, ethical questions remain
Poynter.org
Syma Mohammed
Mother, Wife, Daughter and Sufi Singer
The Islamic MonthlyKaren Nevatia
Gould Immigration Clinic to offer naturalization aid
Daily Trojan
[Jason Motlagh's "Ghosts of Rana Plaza" on the collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory, which won the 2015 Daniel Pearl Award.]
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