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The Women’s Foreign Policy Group

and the Institute of International Education

Cordially invite you to a luncheon program

“Update on Democracy in South Asia: Elections in

 India & Sri Lanka”

                                                 Barbara Crossette

Columnist, UN Wire

          Barbara Crossette, a columnist for the National Journal's UN Wire, was a former New York Times U.N. bureau chief, a correspondent in Asia, and a reporter on foreign policy in Washington, D.C.   A graduate of Muhlenberg College, she has taught at Princeton University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and was a Fulbright professor of journalism in India. She is the author of a number of books including her most recent, The Great Hill Stations of Asia.  Ms. Crossette recently returned from India and Sri Lanka.

Shyama Venkateswar

Director, Asian Social Issues Program, Asia Society

          Shyama Venkateswar is the Director of the Asian Social Issues Program at the Asia Society where she conceptualizes and coordinates the Society's programs related to social issues and human rights throughout Asia. She has worked on reconstruction in Afghanistan, peace building in Sri Lanka and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and did her dissertation on Hindu nationalism in India as a Guggenheim fellow. She previously served as a Program Officer at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. She has just returned from a trip to India.

Dilshika Jayamaha

Journalist, Associated Press

          Dilshika Jayamaha is a journalist with The Associated Press. She began her reporting career in her native Sri Lanka, covering the island’s civil war for radio and television before joining the AP in 1999. She has reported from dozens of suicide bombings and rebel attacks in the capital and covered front-line combat in Sri Lanka’s north and east and also covered the plight of refugees and child combatants. She served as an election monitor in Sri Lanka and with the UN in East Timor. 

                           Friday, May 7, 2004 - 12:00 Luncheon Program

Institute of International Education

809 United Nations Plaza

1st Avenue between 45th & 46th Street

New York, New York 10017

We Hope You Can Join Us.

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