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Looking Ahead: What the US Election Results Mean for South Asia and South Asians in America
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 (Thursday in Asia and Europe)
SAJA BRIEFING: A distinguished panel of experts and journalists react to the results the day after the elections. What's the future of South Asia-US relations? How will South Asians in America be affected? Which South Asians might get appointed to senior positions in the government? We will also be briefed on how the various South Asian American candidates did at the state and local levels.
Listen live or to a recording:
Here was the timeline of who and what you can hear during the 2.5-hour webcast. You can forward to the parts you want.
Here was the timeline of who and what you can hear during 00-33: Introductions + The Day After + The Big Picture of US-South Asia relations
in order of appearance
- Toby Chaudhuri, Democratic strategist and deputy press secretary, 2000 Gore campaign
- Kishan Putta, founder, Indians for McCain (has worked with the Senator since 1999)
- Stephen Cohen, one of the first Americans to study Indian and Pakistani security policy, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
- Prof. Phil Oldenburg, research scholar, Columbia's Southern Asian Institute and co-editor, "India Briefing" series
33-71: How the Various South Asian Candidates Did + What the Elections Mean for South Asian Americans
- Kathy Kulkarni, president, IALI, Indian-American Leadership Initiative, a network of progressives and Democrats
- Deepa Iyer, executive director, South Asian American Leading Together (SAALT) and representing the National Coalition of South Asian Organizations
- Asif Alam, president, Association of Pakistani Professionals
- Sanjay Puri, executive director, USINPAC, a bipartisan political action committee representing the Indian American community on Capitol Hill and the White House
71-158: The View from the Subcontinent and Europe + Which South Asians Might Get Appointments + A Melange of Topics
- S. Mitra Kalita, national editor and columnist at Mint, a New Delhi-based business daily and is author of "Suburban Sahibs: Three immigrant families and their passage from India to America." In January, she will be moving back to NYC to become deputy global economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and former SAJA president (calling from Delhi)
- Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh, world editor and former Baghdad bureau chief, Time
- Aziz Haniffa, Washington correspondent and editor, India Abroad/Rediff
- Mira Kamdar, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and the author of "Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World" - calling from Paris
- Aneesh Chopra, secretary of technology for the state of Virginia and a cabinet member for Virginia governor Tim Kaine
MODERATORS: Arun Venugopal, SAJAforum editor and WNYC Radio and Sree Sreenivasan, SAJA co-founder and professor, Columbia Journalism School
As always, you are welcome to quote from anything said during the FREE, WORLDWIDE webcasts (30+) at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
See SAJAforum's extensive collection of posts, sources and resources for the 2008 elections at http://www.sajaforum.org/2008race.html
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