Newsline Reporting Update
Aditi has scanned the article on the group which appeared in the main Indian Express a couple weeks ago and I think she will post it soon when she is better. We also were featured in the paper after our talk at the Rotary club:
Yale students at Rotary MidtownExpress News Service
Ludhiana, July 10: AS this month happenes to be ‘Literacy Month’ on Rotary International’s calender, Rotary Club of Ludhiana Midtown arranged a talk by Yale students.
Ashok Sharma, president, tied up with Maninder Singh who had played instrumental role in arranging this visit. Maninder Singh said, ‘‘Yale, an Ivy League University has given maximum number of presidents to USA including the present president George W. Bush.’’
The students discussed in detail about the projects they are doing here in Ludhiana. One group working with CMC on studying the health care practices explained the statistical analysis about finding heart diseases, HIV etc. The other group, lead by Sailaja, is working on public health and is doing a project based on primary information from MC personnel and public in general. The third project is undertaken by Elena in Ludhiana Newsline. She’s studying reporting and editorial aspects of a newspaper.
This article was written based on a press note that the rotary club sent out. I have now learned that every time a press note is sent, it is typed up and no one checks the facts!
Writing for the Newsline has been eventful this past week! I have been trying to meet as many officials as possible, and so far I have had some fascinating interviews with the Senior Superintendent of Police, the Deputy Commissioner, District Traffic Officer, District Education Officer, and many others. Today I spoke with the head of the Ludhiana Improvement Trust who told me that the LIT is useless because all of the officers are corrupt. Its powers have been appropriated by the Municipal Corporation which is also corrupt, and its funds which were supposed to come from the MC also never appear. This man said that most of the employees at LIT only work on jobs which politicians give them money and favors to do, and they are also appointed by the state government- local bodies- in Chandigarh so this man cannot fire these people if he sees they are corrupt. The corruption doesn't end in Ludhiana; every act of the LIT has to be approved by the state government, and according to this man, only policies which are in accordance with the interests of those in Chandigarh are approved. This head was extremely honest with me and clearly intelligent. He has been fighting corruption in the LIT for the past year and the workers have gone on strike and forced his resignation because of this. It was great to speak with someone like him and gave me hope that there are officials who are trying to change the system. He was excited that our group had come to Punjab, and said that it would be wonderful to have students assist in development projects in the LIT (maybe next year :).
I have also been having some hilarious phone conversations with non-english speakers, but have now mastered my phone hindi- mujhe dr. tiwari say badh karni hai? etc. The newsline staff has been wonderful in translating and helping me to get the interviews, but it has been a slow process to get through to many people- forcing me to say on the phone "mene bahut bar phone keeah!" (I have called many times!). However, I usually hand over the phone to a professional at that point.
Here are links to some of the articles I have worked on. Some of the sentences are changed from what I wrote, as I am still learning "Indian English." Aside from writing and finding stories, I have been editing and also am the fastest typist in the place (go mavis beacon!) so every night I am handed a packet of press notes to type up.
Also check out Sailaja's article (yay it finally appeared!) on coffee culture in Ludhiana. We were all jealous of this topic :) but luckily were able to help sailaja by ordering and testing out the coffee. http://cities.expressindia.com/archivefullstory.php?newsid=92138&creation_date=2004-07-20
Drunk Driving:
http://cities.expressindia.com/archivefullstory.php?newsid=92065&creation_date=2004-07-20
No Cardiologist at the Civil Hospital:
http://cities.expressindia.com/archivefullstory.php?newsid=91795&creation_date=2004-07-17
Punjab Electricity Act:
http://cities.expressindia.com/archivefullstory.php?newsid=91406&creation_date=2004-07-14
World Population Day events:
http://cities.expressindia.com/archivefullstory.php?newsid=91276&creation_date=2004-07-13
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