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By Pramod Kulkarni HOUSTON: The journey began thirty years ago when Dr. K. L. Sindwani, then president of India Culture Center, realized there must be a better way of communicating with the growing Indian community than a monthly newsletter. With his wife, Mohini’s help, started the bi-weekly newspaper serving the entire South Asian community.

Dr. Sindwani called on Pramod Kulkarni, then providing freelance graphics services, to create the newspaper masthead and help out with pasting up columns. Much of the news then came from Link, a newspaper based in Vancouver, Canada. The home-made wooden light table used to paste up the layout sheets remains as a reminder of our historical roots.

About six months into the founding of the newspaper, Dr. Sindwani had a vision of growth with the addition of working partners.

The first partner we thought of was Koshy Thomas, who provided typesetting services for the local stories and also ran a rubber stamp business. Dr. Sindwani came across Jawahar Malhotra, who had developed a newsletter for the Trinidad Indian community, at a book reading.

We moved into a small second-story office suite on Bellaire Boulevard, which housed the Southern Chinese Press on the first floor. It was this press that printed our newspaper for about 25 years.

The next six months were exciting as Pramod developed the news content, Jawahar handled the business affairs and created the

cartoon strip, Kya Nayi Khabar. Koshy did the typesetting and Dr. Sindwani continued to handle advertising and community relations.

We bought a vintage Radio Shack TRS-180 computer with a giant floppy disk drive. Mohini Sindwani stepped in as the database operator and handle the mailing and circulation in spite of the crash-prone computer that was later designated the Trash 80.

Over the years, we expanded the newspaper to weekly service, started using desktop publishing software, and increased both the advertising volume and the page count. We even ran a one-hour community TV show called Asiana.

We have trained several generations of reporters and marketing staff. There were innumerable hurdles—late-night computer crashes, hurricanes and floods, and partners and staff leaving to start their own publishing ventures.

One of the most difficult times was the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, when Vanshika and Manasi had to retrieve computers from the newspaper office through much hardship and produce the pages from home. Through it all, Indo-American News, as Dr. Sindwani was fond of saying, “continued to publish the newspaper uninterrupted, year after year, week after week.

The Indo-American News team currently in place (see IAN Team) is committed to continuing Dr. and Mrs. Sindwani’s legacy for years and decades to come.

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The Youth Leadership Development Program (YLDP) of Houston is now an independent 501-C nonprofit organization, nurturing future IndoAmerican leaders. It is thankful for all the community support for this milestone step and enthused to start the class of 2013, its fifth batch on September 29th at India House.

YLDP acknowledges Indo American News for its support and help in reaching out to community at large, especially students and parents from various Greater Houston areas. The YLDP Board congratulates and salutes Indo American News for its dedicated service in bringing news and raising public awareness on several key topics all through the year.

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Heartiest Congratulations! YLDP of Houston wishes Indo American News’ continued success and very best for the future.

YLDP Board: Natesan Murthy, Sushma Bhan, Nimmi Vale, Sangeeta Pasrija, Kalpu Patel, Arun Naik, Veena Ponnaganti, Minal Varadharajan, Pankaj Malani, Atul Vir, Ashok Garg & YLDP Students.

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IAN Anniversary Special August 17, 2012 We Print the News; They Deliver the Newspaper Places where you can pick up Indo American News every week

You’ve probably seen our news stand all across town at the nearly nearly 120 locations where you can find Indo American News. Meet the people who get the news papers there: Guillermo Meyemberg (left), Ray Curtis and Jorje Bacca (not in the picture). And not to forget Nelson Umanzor who gets the paper to the post office for mailing every week.

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Directories and Desi Connection to Stay Connected

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Since 1983, Indo American News printed phone directories for desis in the Bayou City, then spread out to the five county area.

Desi Connection went even further and brought in listings in other Texas cities. The last one in 2009 puslished desi business listings in 10 Texas cities and also useful travel data.

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Asiana Television Brought Us All Together

From 1989 to 1994, we produced a television program that aired every Sunday morning for an hour. It had variety - news from the Indian Subcontinent, community news, filmi stuf, comedy skits, immigration matters, interviews with touring Bollywood movie stars and even live dances and songs performed in our studio on Richmond and Rogerdale. We gave many people exposure to a greater audience and a few - like Sunil Thakkar - an opportunity to show their talents.

Top: Ashiana Television being taped at the studio. Krishna Giri cues the news anchors.

Clockwise from above left: Show anchors Asin Sadiqi, Jawahar Malhotra, Preeti Gandhi; news anchors Chini Vyas and Ravi Srinivasan.

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