Sarita Sarvate

Sarita Sarvate is an Indian-American journalist and writer. For nearly twenty years, she has published the “Last Word” column[1] for India Currents, an Indian-American magazine. She has also published opinion essays for New America Media,[2] a coalition of ethnic media around the world and its predecessor the Pacific News Service,[3] for over a decade. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews have been syndicated in the Los Angeles Times,[4] the San Jose Mercury News,[5] the Oakland Tribune,[6] Salon Magazine,[7] Rediff News Service of India,[8] and many other online and print media outlets. She has been a leader in the South Asian community, speaking at various events, and has been written about in a profile of exceptional women in the South Asian immigrant women.[9] Her fiction has been published in an anthology of poetry and fiction by South Asian American writers.[10]

Awards

In 1998, she won the award [11] for the best commentary in ethnic media from New California Media, a coalition of ethnic digital and print media that has since expanded to become the New America Media. The following year, she won the second prize in the same category.

References
  1. "The Last Word by Sarita Sarvate". Retrieved 2010-09-14.
  2. "Health Care as a Civil Right". Retrieved 2010-09-14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Dowries the Root Cause of Abuse of Women in India". Retrieved 2010-09-14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "Hillary Clinton Owes an Explanation to Women of the Third World". Retrieved 2010-09-14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. "San Jose Mercury News Opinion". Retrieved 2010-09-14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "Oakland Tribune". Retrieved 2010-09-14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "A weapon so powerful, it will destroy the world". Retrieved 2010-09-14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. "Why the US is to blame for India's farmer suicides". Retrieved 2010-09-14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. Shandas, Padma. Spices in the melting pot: life stories of exceptional South Asian immigrant women. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
  10. Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni. Living In America: Poetry And Fiction By South Asian American Writers. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
  11. "India Currents Awards". Retrieved 2010-09-14.
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