REPORTING CLASS J 234 Spring 2018

INSTRUCTOR: GEETA ANAND OFFICE: Room 134,UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (Lydia Chavez’s office) EMAIL: [email protected] CELL PHONE: 510-292-9412 CLASS HOURS: Wednesdays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. OFFICE HOURS: Wednesdays 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4 p.m. – 5 p.m., Brewed Awakenings on Euclid Ave

CLASS DESCRIPTION: This class will prepare students to identify, report and write a fresh, interesting and important story on India. To do that, the class will help students absorb lots of information on Indian history and current affairs so they can identify a resonant story. Also, the class will help students improve their skills as journalists so they can find the most compelling way of reporting their stories and telling them.

We will absorb the most information possible about India by reading some of the best books and newspaper articles about the country, watching a few compelling films, daily reading of the national and international media and classroom discussions via Skype with journalists who have lived and worked there about how they identified, reported and wrote their best stories.

REQUIREMENTS: 1. Attend class each week and be prepared with the readings and assignments 2. Spend 20 minutes a day skimming Indian newspapers and international media about India. My suggestions: read The Indian Express, The Hindu, , Reuters India. But you may choose other publications. I cannot emphasize enough how vital it is to be abreast on the news to identify good story ideas. The reading gives you the context and it gives you the ideas. 3. Take turns delivering one 5-minute oral report on the India news for the week based on daily reading of local and international media 4. Take turns interviewing the speaker for the week and writing a one- page profile of the person and taking the lead in interviewing that person. 5. Develop one story proposal that is fresh, saleable, doable and approved by me prior to our trip to India. Warning: students cannot travel to India unless they have found a story idea that is approved by me. 6. Prior to the trip to India, submit a two-page memo detailing the research material that forms the underpinning for the story.

1 7. Prior to the trip to India, file a two-page memo identifying the sources for the story and summarizing your contacts with the people who will be interviewed in India and your plan for reporting the story there. 8. Submit a story to me at the end of the semester that is based on research and reporting in India.

GRADING 50% of the grade is based on the final story submitted at the end of class 25%of the grade is based on the memos of preparation for the story 25% of the grade is based on classroom attendance and participation

PLEASE NOTE 1. Enrolling in this class is not a guarantee that you will travel to India. To go, you must develop a story idea that is approved by me. Students who don’t travel to India can report and write a story on the South Asian community in the San Fransisco area. If students encounter visa problems, we will together devise alternative plans. 2. We are all journalists who work in a world that changes continuously. For that reason, this syllabus will also change during the course of the semester. Speakers will change, depending on their schedules and on the interest you show in the various topics I introduce in the second class through reading the top newspaper articles of recent years.

COURSE MATERIAL: BOOKS: Inspite of the Gods by Edward Luce The Modi Effect by Lance Price Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Curfewed Night: A Memoir of War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer

OPTIONAL READINGS: The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha

FILMS: Ship of Theseus, an Indian feature film, explores the meaning of identity, justice, beauty and death through three interweaving stories. It was critically acclaimed at the Toronto Film Festival. Lion, a biographical drama film based on the book A Long Way Home about an Australian man’s true story of his journey home to India to find his family, from whom he was separated 25 years earlier as a young child who got lost at a train station. The film got six Oscar nominations. Poorna, a film written, directed and acted in by Rahul Bose, about a 13-year Indian girl from tribal community ascending Mt. Everest, speaks to the challenges of overcoming caste. The Good Road, a film by Gyan Correa about child sexual exploitation that was India’s nomination for the Oscar best foreign film award

2 https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/a-conversation-with-filmmaker- gyan-correa/ BBC Documentary on Delhi Rape http://watchdocumentaries.com/indias- daughter/ and Ted Talk by the film director Leslee Udwin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2lrzgVZzas

NEWSPAPER STORIES Linked below in the weekly reading lists

DAILY READING OF INDIAN MEDIA AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ON INDIA: Note: Without this, you won’t have the context or access to ideas to identify the best stories on India My suggestions: The Indian Express indianexpress.com The Hindu thehindu.com The New York Times nytimes.com Reuters India https://in.reuters.com/ BUT you are free to choose any alternative you prefer

CLASS 1 JANUARY 17 Introduction Introductions, discussion of class syllabus and assignments, travel logistics, expectations, discussion with students on why they joined this class and where else in the world they’ve been

Showing short film Baphlimali 143 on tribal protest of a proposed mine

Note: topics students are interested in may come in later weeks of this course, and students can meet with me outside of class if they choose stories related to topics discussed later in the semester Also Note: Students working in media other than print, let me know right away because I want to connect you with local journalists to guide you as we prepare to travel to India Final Note: Don’t be frightened by the large number of news articles on the reading list for next week. I’m giving you lots of material to read in the first few classes to help you make your story choice. The readings will ease considerably thereafter to allow time for your own research and reporting and writing.

Preparation for next class, January 24: 20 minutes daily scanning of Indian and international media on India Selected student prepares a summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a bio of next week’s speaker, , South Asia bureau chief of The New York Times, to share January 23, the day before the next class and to deliver orally for 2 minutes at the next class, and to lead the interview of Gettleman at the next class

Readings: Note: All students scan these newspaper articles on India linked below that are aimed at giving you an overview of some of the most compelling topics and stories

3 of recent years to help you make your story choices. I know the number of articles is large, but read as many as you can before the next class. We’ll return to these stories in depth in later weeks

1. Ellen Barry’s NYT series on Indian women’s struggle to work https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-labor- work-force.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/world/asia/bangalore-india-women- factories.html

2. Violence against women WSJ stories on the Delhi gang rape of 2012 that led to widespread protests, soul searching and new laws https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/03/11/delhi-rape-the-complete- wsj-coverage/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324669104578209043882 363124 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323320404578211693035 855564 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323829504578271810720 960682 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324616604578302620513 689386

3. Reporting on healthcare and disease Geeta Anand’s stories on drug resistant tuberculosis in the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303444204577460734274201756 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324894104578115232206834770 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444273704577633431646496346

Geeta Anand’s story on diabetes in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/health/india-diabetes-junk-food.html

Gardiner Harris on the spread of drug resistant bacteria for NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/world/asia/superbugs-kill-- babies-and-pose-an-overseas-threat.html

4. Reporting on corruption and lawlessness in India Geeta Anand’s Indiabulls company harassing a stock market analyst for the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-negative-stock-report-about-indiabulls-led-to- an-analysts-arrest-and-a-2-000-mile-odyssey-1442291340 Geeta Anand for the WSJ on fake shootouts by the police https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204443404577054351991 039764 Geeta Anand for the WSJ on the enrichment of the Gandhi son-in-law https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-a-real-estate-empire-ties-to-indias- gandhi-dynasty-1397787248 Ellen Barry’s NYT story on the cover-up of a murder

4 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/world/asia/murder-small-town- india.html

5. India’s struggle to overcome profound and deeply entrenched inequality Geeta Anand’s on the struggle to overcome inequality for the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704083904576337373758 647478

6. Caste System Geeta Anand’s on the struggle to overcome the caste system for the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204903804577080700006 684514

7. Terror attacks in South Asia WSJ on the terror attack on hotels, a hospital and a Jewish center that held Mumbai hostage for two days https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122809281744967855

NYT stories on militant attack on Holey Name Bakery in Bangladesh in which many foreigners were murdered https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/world/asia/bangladesh-hostage- standoff.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/world/asia/bangladesh-dhaka- terrorism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/world/asia/man-survives-terrorist- attack-but-is-arrested-as-a-suspect.html

8. Indian women challenging deeply rooted sexist religious practices https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/world/asia/india-divorce-muslims- islam-women.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/world/asia/forging-a-path-for- women-deep-into-indias-sacred-shrines.html

9. Climate change, air pollution and the environment Geeta Anand and Vikram Singh’s video story for the NYT on climate change making a village uninhabitable https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/world/middleeast/india- farmers-drought.html Geeta Anand’s NYT piece showing India’s surprising move to greener policies https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/asia/india-coal-green-energy- climate.html Geeta Anand’s NYT story on crop burning fueling air pollution https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/farmers-unchecked-crop- burning-fuels-indias-air-pollution.html Geeta Anand’s Facebook Live report on crop burning fueling air pollution https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10150943950784999?comment_id =10150944162839999&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22% 7D

5 Gardiner Harris’s groundbreaking NYT stories on air pollution in India https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be- step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html

10. Kashmir reporting—the never ending war Ellen Barry on eye surgery Kashmir for NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/asia/pellet-guns-used-in- kashmir-protests-cause-dead-eyes-epidemic.html Geeta Anand on the popularity of the militants in Kashmir for the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/asia/kashmir-india-pakistan- militants.html

11. The Indian economy—growing fast and radical experiments Geeta Anand for NYT on demonetization and its effect https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/asia/how-india-plans-to-wipe- out-black-money.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias- cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/world/asia/india-tax-narendra- modi.html Pratap Banu Mehta’s column on demonetization a year later http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/demonetisation-pm-modi- notes-ban-one-year-of-demonetisation-4927169/

12. Indian politics—the Modi phenomenon Geeta Anand Modi election story on Modi’s win https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-indian-elections-what-narendra-modis-win- means-for-the-country-1400282144 Geeta Anand on Modi winning in India’s biggest state, consolidating power https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/world/asia/narendra-modis-party- wins-big-in-uttar-pradesh-indias-largest-state.html NYT on Modi losing some ground in Gujarat state recently https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/world/asia/bharatiya-janata-party- india.html NYT on India’s economic slowdown hurting Modi https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/world/asia/india-modi-economy.html

CLASS 2 JANUARY 24 Overview of India Weekly review of news in the Indian media—students rotate each week, doing a 5-minute oral presentation to the class followed by a class discussion.

Discussion of what students learned from the selected news articles they read in terms of content and craft. Based on this discussion, future readings in the class will be amended and speaker list amended to reflect their interest

Weekly speaker introduction and bio by selected student of Gettleman; Student will lead interview of Gettleman

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SPEAKER: Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times bureau chief for South Asia, on the big stories he sees on India in the coming years Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for next class, January 31: 20 minutes daily reading of Indian and international media Readings In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce Geeta Anand’s New York Times stories on India’s overnight currency ban https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/asia/how-india-plans-to-wipe- out-black-money.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias- cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/world/asia/india-tax-narendra- modi.html http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/demonetisation-pm-modi- notes-ban-one-year-of-demonetisation-4927169/ Jeffrey Gettleman’s New York Times piece on India’s economy slowing https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/world/asia/india-modi-economy.html Selected student prepares 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one-page written bio of next week’s speaker, Eric Bellman, to share the day before the next class and to deliver orally at the next class and to lead the interview of Bellman at the next class

CLASS 3 JANUARY 31 India as the World’s Fastest Growing Major Economy, Modi Suddenly Banning the Currency

Weekly speaker introduction and bio of Eric Bellman Speaker Eric Bellman, deputy bureau chief for in India, on what how the India story has changed during his 15 years in India Weekly News Summary--selected student delivers 5 minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and class discusses it Discussion--Inspite of the Gods and demonetizaton story and economy slowing Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for next class, February 7: 20 minutes reading daily of Indian and international media Readings Ellen Barry’s series on women trying to enter the workforce in India https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-labor- work-force.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/world/asia/bangalore-india-women- factories.html Ellen Barry’s story on pellet wounds to the eyes in Kashmir https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/asia/pellet-guns-used-in- kashmir-protests-cause-dead-eyes-epidemic.html

7 Selected student prepares 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one page written bio of next week’s speaker, Ellen Barry, former South Asia bureau chief for The New York Times

CLASS 4 FEBRUARY 7: Indian Women’s Struggle to enter the Workforce and the Kashmir Tragedy (part 1—we will revisit Kashmir later)

Weekly News Summary--Selected student delivers 5 minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and discussion about it Weekly Speaker Bio--Selected student delivers a bio of this week’s speaker, Ellen Barry, and leads the interview of Barry in class

Speaker: Ellen Barry, former New York Times South Asia bureau chief, on how she developed and reported her series on women in the workforce; also on how she identified, developed and executed her story on pellet injuries in Kashmir Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for next class, February 14: Assignment--Prepare a half page story proposal on your best, most exciting idea that you will submit on bCourses by 10 p.m. on February 12 and deliver in a 2 minute presentation to the class next week 20 minutes reading daily of Indian and international media Readings: Lane Price book The Modi Effect Geeta Anand’s WSJ story on Modi’s election https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-indian-elections-what-narendra-modis-win- means-for-the-country-1400282144 Niharika Mandana’s recent stories on Modi https://www.wsj.com/articles/bjp-victory-boosts-indias-modi-1489336445 NYT story on Modi’s landslide recent election victory in UP https://www.wsj.com/articles/prime-minister-narendra-modi-leads-party-to- big-win-in-indian-state-election-1489240650 Review BBC Country Timeline on India—with focus on history and governance structures Selected student prepares a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one page written bio of next week’s speaker, Rajdeep Sardesai, well known television news reporter and anchor and author; and/or Niharika Mandana, WSJ political reporter in India, to share the day in written form the day before the next class and to deliver orally at the next class; selected student will also lead the interview of Sardesai and/or Mandana at the next class

CLASS 5 FEBRUARY 14: Indian Politics and the Modi Effect Story proposal presentations, 2 minutes each, followed by a peer workshop of your hard copy (you will submit a revised version by 10 p.m. on February 15. I’ll give you feedback)

8 Weekly News Summary--Selected student presents 5 minute oral summary of the week’s news on India based on these readings and students discuss most interesting stories of the week Weekly bio--Selected student presents bio of this week’s speaker, Rajdeep Sardesai, OR Niharika Mandana, and leads the interview of Sardesai/Mandana in class Discussion of book The Modi Effect Speaker: Rajdeep Sardesai, author and television news reporter and editor and/or Speaker: Niharika Mandana, WSJ political reporter New Delhi Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for Feb. 21 class: 20 minutes reading daily of Indian and international media Assignment--Revise story proposals and submit to me Reading and Viewing WSJ articles on the Delhi rape Watching India’s Daughter, BBC documentary on the Delhi rape by Leslee Udwin http://watchdocumentaries.com/indias-daughter/

Watching Ted Talk delivered by the director of the BBC documentary, Leslee Udwin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2lrzgVZzas

Jesse Pesta’s WSJ story on phenomenon of women getting burned in their homes https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-indian-families-the-dangerous-meeting-of- women-and-fire-1437606446

Selected student prepares a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one-page written bio of next week’s speaker, Jesse Pesta, NYT deputy climate change editor and former WSJ reporter in India, to share the day before the next class and to deliver orally at the next class and to lead the interview of Pesta at the next class

CLASS 6 FEBRUARY 21: Violence Against Women Students present their revised story proposals and class discusses them Discussion of BBC documentary on Delhi rape Weekly News Summary--Selected student delivers 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and we discuss the week’s big news stories Weekly bio--Selected student presents a bio of this week’s speaker, Jesse Pesta, and leads interview of him Speaker: Jesse Pesta, New York Times deputy climate editor and former Wall Street Journal reporter in India, on how he reported the story on the woman burned by her relatives. In particular, how he dealt with ambiguity. Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for Feb. 28 class: 20 minutes reading daily of Indian and international media on India

9 Assignment: Prepare two-page memo of background information and research that will form the underpinning of your story and submit on bCourses by 10 p.m. on Feb. 26.

Readings WSJ on the terror attack on hotels, a hospital and a Jewish center that held Mumbai hostage for two days https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122809281744967855

NYT stories on militant attack on Holey Name Bakery in Bangladesh https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/world/asia/bangladesh-hostage- standoff.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/world/asia/bangladesh-dhaka- terrorism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/world/asia/man-survives-terrorist- attack-but-is-arrested-as-a-suspect.html

Selected student prepares a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one page written bio of next week’s speaker, Geeta Anand, and/or Zulfikar Ali Manik, freelancer for the NYT in Bangladesh, to share the day before the next class and to deliver orally at the next class and to lead the interview of Geeta and/or Manik at the next class

CLASS 7 FEBRUARY 28: Militancy in South Asia Workshop on story background memos submitted; based on this, students will revise their background memos and submit them the next day, March 1 Weekly News Summary--Selected student delivers a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and we discuss the top news Weekly Bio--Selected student delivers an oral bio of this week’s speaker, Geeta and/or Manik, and leads the interview of Geeta and/or Manik Speaker: Geeta Anand, former NYT and WSJ reporter, on the Mumbai terror attack, how she reported it and developed feature ideas going forward And/or Speaker: Julfikar Ali Manik, freelancer for the NYT in Bangladesh, on how he reported on the Holey Name Bakery attack Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for March 7 class: Assignment--Revise background memo and submit it day after class, March 1 Selected student prepares a 5 minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one page written bio of next week’s speaker, Dr. Zarir Udwadia, and/or Rahul Verma, and/or Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik, to share the day before the next class and to deliver orally at the next class and to lead the interview of these speakers at the next class Read Geeta Anand’s stories on totally drug resistant TB

10 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303444204577460734274201756 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324894104578115232206834770 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444273704577633431646496346

Read Geeta Anand’s story on diabetes in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/health/india-diabetes-junk-food.html

CLASS 8 MARCH 7: India’s Double Burden in Healthcare: Infectious Diseases and Non Communicable Diseases Students present revised background memos in class Weekly News Summary--Selected student delivers a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and the class discusses the top stories Weekly Bio--Selected student delivers oral bios of this week’s speakers Zarir Udwadia and/or Rahul Verma and/or Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik SPEAKERS: Dr. Zarir Udwadia, the leading TB doctor, on his fight to bring drug resistant TB to global attention and/or Rahul Verma, the dad who filed the lawsuit seeking to ban junk food in India’s schools and/or Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik on his research into why South Asians are so susceptible to diabetes SPEAKER: Geeta Anand on how she did conceptualized and reported the stories on drug resistant TB and the diabetes epidemic in India. Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for March 14 class: Assignment: Identify people to interview in India, reach out to them and arrange interviews with them; identify translators/fixes who can assist in your reporting. Submit a 2-page memo on bCourses detailing your plan by 10 pm on March 12. 20 minutes daily reading national and international news on India Selected student prepares a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one page written bio of next week’s speaker, Vikram Singh, video journalist who freelances for The New York Times, Al Jazeera and others, and/or Gardiner Harris, NYT reporter who used to cover South Asia, to share the day before the next class and to deliver orally at the next class and to lead the interview of Vikram and/or Gardiner at the next class Readings and Viewings Geeta Anand and Vikram Singh’s video story for the NYT on climate change making a village uninhabitable https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/world/middleeast/india- farmers-drought.html Geeta Anand’s NYT piece showing India’s surprising move to greener policies https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/asia/india-coal-green-energy- climate.html Geeta Anand’s NYT story on crop burning fueling air pollution https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/farmers-unchecked-crop- burning-fuels-indias-air-pollution.html Geeta Anand’s Facebook Live report on crop burning fueling air pollution

11 https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10150943950784999?comment_id =10150944162839999&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22% 7D Gardiner Harris’s groundbreaking NYT stories on air pollution in India https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be- step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html

CLASS 9 MARCH 7: Air Pollution and Climate Change Weekly News Summary--Selected student delivers a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and we discuss it Weekly Bio--Selected student delivers 5 minute oral bios of this week’s speakers, Vikram Singh, the video journalist who freelances for The New York Times, Al Jazeera and others, and Gardiner Harris, the former NYT South Asia correspondent Workshop on students’ reporting plans. Students will revised these memos and submit them on bCourses by 10 p.m. on March 12. SPEAKER: Vikram Singh, freelance video journalist for the NYT and Al Jazeera, on the challenges of filming and producing the drought story and/or SPEAKER: Gardiner Harris, former NYT South Asia correspondent, discusses how he researched and wrote his stories on air pollution in Delhi Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for March 14 class Revise story reporting memo and submit it to me by March 12 Readings: Curfewed Night: A Memoir of War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer Arundati Roy’s long article on the Maoists https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/walking-with-the- comrades/264738 Atul Loke’s photographs https://www.google.com/search?q=atul+loke%27s+photos+in+kashmir&rlz=1C 5CHFA_enIN762IN762&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs4 u_FktvYAhUpw1QKHd-JCAIQsAQIKA&biw=1050&bih=616 Samir Yasir’s story on the Kashmiri tied by the army to the front of the car https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/world/asia/kashmir-and-jammu- india-army-jeep-farooq-ahmad-dar.html

20 minutes daily reading of national and international news on India Selected student prepares a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India Selected student prepares a one page written bio of next week’s speaker, Samir Yasir, freelance reporter in Kashmir for the NYT, and Atul Loke, freelance photographer for the NYT, to share the day before the next class and to deliver orally at the next class and to lead the interview of Yasir and/or Loke at the next class

12 CLASS 10 MARCH 14: Kashmir and Independence Movements in India Selected student delivers a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and we discuss it Selected student delivers a 5 minute oral bio of this week’s speaker, Samir Yasir, a native of Kashmir who studied at Bard College and now covers Kashmir as a freelance journalist for The New York Times, and Atul Loke, freelance photosphere who works for the NYT Students present their revised story reporting memos for our upcoming trip SPEAKER: Samir Yasir, freelance journalist in Kashmir for The New York Times And/or Atul Loke, freelance photographer for The New York Times and others Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

Preparation for March 21 class Assignment: Revise story proposal based on revised background memo and revised story reporting memo and submit on bCourses by 10 pm, March 19 Finish setting up interviews in India Readings India’s struggle to overcome profound and deeply entrenched inequality Geeta Anand’s on the struggle to overcome inequality for the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704083904576337373758 647478 Caste System Geeta Anand’s on the struggle to overcome the caste system for the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204903804577080700006 684514

CLASS 11 MARCH 21: Overcoming Caste and Inequality in India Weekly News Summary--Selected student delivers a 5-minute oral summary of the week’s news on India and we discuss it Weekly Bio--Selected student delivers an oral bio of this week’s speakers, Rahul Bose, director, producer and actor of the movie Poorna, and Praveen Kumar, the government official whom Bose portrays in the film Peer workshop of story reporting plans—bring hard copy of plan to work on in class. View film Poorna about the 13-year-old Indian girl from one of the oppressed tribal communities who climbed Everest Speaker Rahul Bose, director, producer and actor in the film and/or Speaker R.S. Praveen Kumar, the Telengana state official who Bose plays in the film; Kumar revamped the state’s boarding school system for lower caste students and inspired Poorna to climb Everest. Final 15 minutes: Students write down five story ideas that come to mind

TRIP TO INDIA—SPRING BREAK

13 Reading Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Preparation for April 4 class Assignment: Write first draft of India story and submit on bCourses by 10 pm April 2 20 minutes daily reading of national and international news on India

CLASS 12 APRIL 4 TBA During this period after our India trip, students will meet with me in individual sessions to work on their story drafts. We may also meet for regular class, depending on how we are progressing.

Preparation for April 11 class Assignment: Write second draft of India story, based on feedback, and submit on bCourses by 10 pm, April 9 20 minutes daily reading of national and international news on India

CLASS 13 APRIL 11 TBA During this period after our India trip, students will meet with me in individual sessions to work on their story drafts. We may also meet for regular class, depending on how we are progressing.

Preparation for April 17 class Assignment: Write third draft of India story and submit on bCourses by 10 pm, April 15 20 minutes daily reading of national and international news on India

CLASS 14 APRIL 17 TBA During this period after our India trip, students will meet with me in individual sessions to work on their story drafts. We may also meet for regular class, depending on how we are progressing.

Preparation for April 25 class Assignment: Submit final story to Geeta by April 23; and prepare a 2- minute elevator pitch of the story to deliver in next class 20 minutes daily reading of national and international news on India

CLASS 15 APRIL 25 Elevator Pitches and Celebratory Dinner Assignment: Students each give a 2-minute elevator pitch of their story Students spend 15 minutes writing anonymous feedback on the class—what worked, what didn’t, suggestions to improve it Celebratory dinner pot luck

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