The South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) and SAJA Group Inc. announced the winners of the 2007-2008 SAJA Reporting Fellowships last month. SAJA awarded four fellowship grants for reporting pieces in India and Sri Lanka. Out of the 25 proposals submitted, four were selected. The articles will be available to news organizations all over the world for free in April 2008.

The winners include two teams of journalists—Judith Matloff and Robert Nickelsberg and Angilee Shah and Arthur Rhodes—and two individual journalists—Shrinivas Kuruganti and Daniel Grushkin.

Grushkin has been awarded $4,700 to profile a 100-mile trek from the ice flow to the markets in Leh, in the Himalayas. He will focus on the effects of global warming on this region as the ice thins and the Himalayan glaciers continue to shrink. Another environmental project has been proposed by Kuruganti, who was awarded $4,775 to create an audio-photo Web essay on industrial pollution in India.

As for the teams, Matloff and Nickelsberg received $4,860 to examine the issue of mental health in India, through print journalism and photography. Shah and Rhodes were awarded $5,250 to produce a multimedia piece on the civil war in Sri Lanka through the people most closely affected by the conflict.

The SAJA Reporting Fellowships were originally launched to ensure follow-up reporting on the 2004 tsunami and its victims. For more information, please visit http://saja.org/events/srf2007.html.