awaaz - voices from the south asian diaspora
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Diana Athill now 88 was regarded as one of the finest editors in London. She worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War and then helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name.In her book ‘stet’ she describes how she heard a man say that humankind is seventy per cent brutish, thirty percent intelligent and though the thirty percent is never going to win, it will always be able to leaven the mass just enough to keep us going. She went on to say that ‘intelligence’ means not just intellectual agility, but whatever it is in beings that makes for readiness to understand, to look for the essence in other beings and things and events, to respect that essence, to collaborate, to discover, to endure when endurance is necessary, to enjoy: briefly, to co-exist. Finally after many years as an editor, as she finally set to “scribble” her book ‘stet’ she looks back and says “it gave so many kinds of enlargement, interest, amusement and pleasure to my days. It was a job on the side of the thirty percent. We at Awaaz are on the same side.TRANSCRIPT
AWAAZVoices from the South Asian
Diaspora
2003 – 2008www.awaazmagazine.com
The motto of the
Colonial Times
was‘Free, Frank and Fearless’
1914 – 2002Freedom Fighter & veteran
Journalist.
1915 – 1995Eddie Pereira
Kenya’s Fierce
Nationalist
“Carve your name on
hearts, not on Marble”
January 1995The night he was
murdered
23 October 2002
Pheroze Nowrojee,awarded the
Bernard Simons Award by the
International Bar Association
“Another world is not only possible, she is on here way. On a quiet day, I can hear
her breathing”
1879 – 1926Manilal Desai
Champion of the
African Cause
SIDI GOMAS
1913 – 1973Makhan Singh
Celebrating Kenya’s Freedom Fighters
1924 – 2003Pranlal Sheth
ExposingIniquity
L to R: Pranlal Sheth, Pio Gama Pinto and Piyo Rattansi
Front row:L to R: Pranlal Sheth, Mrs Hindocha, Oginga Odinga and Mr Hindocha
Harinder Veriah1967 – 2000
“Her death was entirely avoidable”
Hospital denies racism claims Observer, 4/3/2001
Anti-racists take on Hong Kong’s secret shame
South China Morning Post, 22/11/2000
Achhroo Ram Kapila1920 – 2003
‘A full life’
Story by Jameela Siddiqi
‘Reliving the Ugandan
Independence’
Dedicated to my ‘fiesty mother’
1965 – 2005Pio Gama
Pinto
Independent Kenya’s
first Martyr
Nominated to
Parliament1963
With children outside the door of his House, not far from where he was shot
Unveiling Kenyatta Statue in
Parliament grounds circa 1964
February 1965: Scene of assassination and investigation
At funeral: L to r: Makhan Singh, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, brother Rosario Pinto, wife Emma Pinto and K P Shah
Posthumous award given to Pinto by International
Organisation of Journalists on September 1965
1935-1968Priya RamrakhaA tribute by Shravan Vidyarthi
The Photographer
that Kenya forgot
1935-1968Priya RamrakhaA tribute by Shravan Vidyarthi
The Photographer
that Kenya forgot
Unforgettableimages from the
lens of a forgottenPhotographer
Photographs courtesy of ThePriya Ramrakha collection and special permission from Time/Life
Martin Luther King Richard Nixon
Leopard Senghor
Kamuzu Banda
Only 66 out of the
original 101 names of
South Asian origin
were retained
Ishan Kapila1957 – 2005
‘he not only saw Kenya’s
potential he felt it’
John Githongo
1922 – 2005Sophia Mustafa
‘Against the
Shadows’
At a rallyWith Julius Nyerere
On the campaigntrail
On a march