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Washington: With two
of them governors, four billionaires and over a score sitting in
high places in government, Indian Americans not only keep making
news but have also emerged as major players in American media.
Take Indian-born Aparism Bobby Ghosh, for instance, who was last
week named by Time magazine as 'Editor-at-Large'. In naming Ghosh,
Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel, called him "one of Time's
greatest assets and this past year was one of his best yet."
Then there is Fareed Zakaria, who too was introduced as
Editor-at-Large of Time Magazine in October 2010 after spending 10
years overseeing all of Newsweek's editions abroad.
Called "the most influential foreign policy adviser of his
generation" by Esquire Magazine, Zakaria hosts what has been
dibbed one of the most intelligent shows on American TV, 'Fareed
Zakaria GPS' on CNN every Sunday.
Equally ubiquitous is Sanjay Gupta, the multiple Emmy-award
winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. A practicing
neurosurgeon, Gupta has reported from earthquake- and
tsunami-ravaged Japan, earthquake devastated Haiti and covered
live the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan.
Vinnie Malhotra, a former programme development executive at ESPN
and long-time ABC News producer, has just joined CNN as senior
vice president for development and acquisitions.
Last month, Raju Narisetti, credited with creating Mint, the
successful business daily out of Delhi, returned to the Wall
Street Journal, where he had spent 23 years earlier, as Managing
Editor of its Digital Network.
Nisid Hajari, Managing Editor of Newsweek is busy writing
"Midnight's Furies," a dramatic history of the Partition of India
and Pakistan, told through the characters of Gandhi, Jinnah,
Nehru, Churchill, and Mountbatten.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington
Post, where he has worked since 1994. His first book "Imperial
Life in the Emerald City:Inside Iraq's Green Zone" published in
2006 won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the
2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.
ESPN's sports anchor Kevin Negandhi is the first anchor of
Indian-American descent to be on a national sports network in
American Television history and Ali Velshi, son of Murad Velshi,
the first Canadian of Indian origin elected to the legislative
assembly of Ontario, serves as CNN's chief business correspondent.
Other names include Davan Maharaj, managing editor of the Los
Angeles Times;
Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine Executive Editor overseeing
technology, and Nikhil Deogun, Senior Vice President and Editor in
Chief Business News, CNBC, the most-watched business TV network in
the world.
Peter Bhatia, editor of The Oregonian, one of America's top
regional newspapers, is the first South Asian to run a major US
daily.
Hundreds of lesser known Indian Americans are among the producers,
reporters, copy editors and production assistants, bringing
Americans their daily news -showing how far Indian-American have
come in the media world where only a few of them commanded bylines
in the 1990s.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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