India-West

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TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)India-West Publications, Inc.
PublisherRamesh Murarka
EditorBina Murarka
Founded1975
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters San Leandro, California
ISSN 0883-721X
OCLC number 42647750
Website www.indiawest.com

India-West is an Indian American newspaper based in Northern California. Founded in 1975 as a monthly publication, it switched to a weekly format in 1978, and went fully digital in 2022. [1] [2]

Contents

At its peak, it was one of the two leading Indian American newspapers, alongside India Abroad . [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Co-founders Ramesh and Bina Murarka have been the publisher and editor for over four decades. [2] [9]

Headquartered in San Leandro, California, it also once operated bureaus in Los Angeles and Mumbai.

The paper has received dozens of ethnic media awards. [10] [11] [12]

Coverage

As a general interest newspaper, India-West has covered a wide range of topics related to Indian American communities.

It has featured interviews with Indian prime Minister Indira Gandhi and U.S. President George H.W. Bush, in addition to a wide range of South Asian and South Asian American artists, entrepreneurs, politicians, and community members. [13] [14] [15] It was also a publisher of the State of California's "On the Record" columns. [16]

Researchers have studied or cited India-West's coverage of Indian American acculturation, [17] immigration politics, [18] businesses, [19] labor, [20] gender, [21] domestic violence, [22] dance, [23] theater, [24] and community organizations. [25]

One of its most notable investigative reports exposed the presence of beef fat in McDonald’s french fries marketed as vegetarian, leading to a high-profile lawsuit and public apology. [11] [26] [27]

Relationship to other media

In 1997, India-West and its East Coast rival India Abroad opened up a shared office building in San Leandro, which India-West hoped to use as a headquarters, and India Abroad as a West Coast office; further plans for integration never materialized. [28] [29]

In the mid-2000s, India-West's publishers ran a quarterly lifestyle magazine called Indian Life & Style . [30] [31]

In 2019, India-West acquired Southern California paper India Journal . [32]

The paper has also collaborated with other publications, including joint coverage of the Lakireddy Bali Reddy trafficking case with the San Francisco Examiner . [33]

Archives

India-West is archived on ProQuest's Ethnic Newswatch database, and since 2021, in NewsBank America's News.

As a key chronicler of post-1965 Indian American life, it is frequently cited by South Asian American historians and researchers. [34] [35] [36]

References

  1. ↑ Murarka, Ramesh (June 1, 1978). "India-West To Become A Weekly In August". India-West. p. 2 – via ProQuest.
  2. 1 2 "Paper offers news of India to immigrants". The Daily News . Bowling Green, Kentucky. Associated Press. June 23, 1985. pp. 4B.
  3. ↑ Parekh, Bhikhu; Singh, Gurharpal; Vertovec, Steven (September 2, 2003). Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora. Routledge. p. 171. ISBN   978-1-134-49052-3. India Abroad, published in New York City, is one of two major Indian immigrant news weeklies in the US. The other, India West, is published on the West Coast.
  4. ↑ Bayor, Ronald H. (July 22, 2011). Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans [4 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 996. ISBN   979-8-216-11993-7.
  5. ↑ Rangaswamy, Padma (2000). Namaste America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis. Penn State Press. p. 319. ISBN   978-0-271-04349-4.
  6. ↑ Jacob, Varughese (November 1, 2017). Counseling Asian Indian Immigrant Families: A Pastoral Psychotherapeutic Model. Springer. p. 24. ISBN   978-3-319-64307-6.
  7. ↑ Kurien, Prema A. (October 2003). "To Be or Not to Be South Asian: Contemporary Indian American Politics". Journal of Asian American Studies. 6 (3): 261–288. doi:10.1353/jaas.2004.0020. ISSN   1096-8598.
  8. ↑ The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020. A Public Policy Report (Report). LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and University of California at Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center. 1993. p. 284. ISBN   0-934052-22-0. Community newspapers such as India West and India Abroad…carry some news of all the South Asian communities
  9. ↑ Newspaper data book : Encyclopedia of the Newspaper Industry. Irvine, California: Editor & Publisher. 2016. p. 102. ISBN   978-1-930732-65-0.
  10. ↑ "Awards Honor Excellence in Ethnic Media". AsianWeek . January 26, 2006. p. 21.
  11. 1 2 "India-West Wins NCM Award". India-West. September 13, 2002. pp. A1 – via ProQuest.
  12. ↑ "India-West Wins Two Awards". India-West. October 31, 2003. pp. A1 – via ProQuest. India-West reporters Ashfaque Swapan and Rupal Shah are among the winners of this year's New California Media Awards, dubbed 'the ethnic Pulitzers' by 'The News Hour With Jim Lehrer.' The paper has won 19 journalism awards to date, more than any other Indian American publication.
  13. ↑ Murarka, Ramesh; Murarka, Bina (January 15, 1977). "We're Not Harassing The People...Prime Minister Tells India-West In An Exclusive Interview". India-West. p. 1 – via ProQuest.
  14. ↑ Ku, Beulah (June 26, 1992). "President Meets With APA Media". AsianWeek . p. 14.
  15. ↑ Raghnuathan, Nimmi (September 16, 2022). "Ro Khanna: I Have a Great Relationship With the White House". India-West. Archived from the original on November 7, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  16. ↑ ""On the Record" Column Participating Outlets" (PDF). Governor of California. December 2019.
  17. ↑ Agarwal, Mansi (2006). Acculturation in Indian ethnic print media in California: A study of “India-West” (M.S. thesis). San Jose State University. ISBN   978-0-542-80872-2.
  18. ↑ Pande, Somava (2016). "Documented or not": Critical discourse analysis of representation of national immigration reforms in Asian Indian ethnic newspapers (PhD thesis). Washington State University. ISBN   978-1-369-61874-7.
  19. ↑ Brooks, Jonathan L. (2003). American owned: Gujarati Indians in the lodging industry (PhD thesis). University of California, Riverside. pp. 184, 200, 222, 254–255. ISBN   978-0-496-57181-9.
  20. ↑ Sharma, Preeti (2019). The Thread Between Them: Affective and Intimate Labor in Los Angeles Threading Salons (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. pp. 49, 52, 58, 166, 193, 234–235, 238, 243. ISBN   9781085619752.
  21. ↑ Gupta, Sangeeta R., ed. (1999). Emerging Voices: South Asian American Women Redefine Self, Family, and Community. AltaMira Press. pp. 107–108, 115, 117–119, 135, 145, 219. ISBN   0761992952.
  22. ↑ Brommer, Stephanie JoAnn (2004). “We walk with them”: South Asian women's organizations in Northern California confront domestic abuse (PhD thesis). University of California, Santa Barbara. pp. 262–263. ISBN   978-0-496-84070-0.
  23. ↑ Saraswat, Shweta (2019). Constructing Diasporic Identity Through Kathak Dance: Flexibility, Fixity, and Nationality in London and Los Angeles (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. p. 200. ISBN   9781085608138.
  24. ↑ Gerdsen, Jenna (2015). Three Ramayanas on the West Coast of the United States: Cross-Cultural Adaptation in American Theatre (M.A. thesis). University of California, Santa Cruz. p. 21. ISBN   978-1-321-93277-5.
  25. ↑ Prasad, Leela (1999). Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience: an Exhibition at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. The Historical Society of PA. p. 59. ISBN   978-1-4223-5821-4.
  26. ↑ Goodstein, Laurie (May 20, 2001). "For Hindus and Vegetarians, Surprise in McDonald's Fries". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  27. ↑ "McDonald's To Settle Suits On Beef Tallow In French Fries". The New York Times. Reuters. March 9, 2002. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  28. ↑ Potts, Michael W. (April 18, 2008). "Pioneer Publisher Gopal Raju Dies". India-West. pp. A1, A30 – via ProQuest.
  29. ↑ Haniffa, Aziz (December 26, 1997). "India Abroad-India West alliance is announced". India Abroad . p. 12.
  30. ↑ "ISSN 1549-1838 (Print): Indian life & style". ISSN Portal. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  31. ↑ "Indian Life & Style". ProQuest. Retrieved February 14, 2025. Place of publication: San Leandro. Publisher: India West. ISSN: 1549-1838. Language: English. Subjects: Ethnic Interests, Asian/Pacific Islander. Publisher address: 933 MacArthur Boulevard, San Leandro, CA, 94577, United States.
  32. ↑ "India-West Announces Acquisition of Los Angeles-based India Journal". India-West. August 16, 2019. pp. A3, A14 – via ProQuest.
  33. ↑ Rodriguez, Daniela Gerson, Carlos; Gerson, Daniela (October 4, 2017). "How can collaborations between ethnic and mainstream outlets serve communities in the digital age?". American Press Institute. Retrieved February 13, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  34. ↑ Leonard, Karen (August 17, 2010). Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Temple University Press. pp. 70, 234, 249, 259, 266, 289, 304, 312–313, 317, 327. ISBN   978-1-4399-0364-3.
  35. ↑ Kowalewski, Albin (2017). Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Congress, 1900-2017. Government Printing Office. pp. 497–498. ISBN   978-0-16-094356-0.
  36. ↑ Kar, Rosie Naresh (2013). What Can Brown Do For You? Citizenship and Desire: The South Asian Diasporic Body (PhD thesis). University of California, Santa Barbara. pp. 152, 162, 198–199, 250. ISBN   978-1-303-53912-1.


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