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  • Blitz India: Pioneering development news

    Blitz India: Pioneering development news

    Blitz India is the world’s first chronicler of development news. Launched in 2022 by veteran media person Mr Deepak Dwivedi, the news weekly gives sustained coverage to the ideas, policies, programs and activities that deal with the improvement of people’s lives. It provides a fair, accurate, and contextualized picture of today’s India and the world, without hyping the negatives.
    Under Mr Dwivedi, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Blitz India offers constructive suggestions on what best can be done to ensure that no one is left behind in the development process, as professed in the transformative motto of Agenda 2030 of the United Nations in the form of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all UN Member States. Blitz India provides an effective platform to channel all efforts in India towards SDGs’ implementation through its social foundation.
    The English edition of Blitz India was launched in February 2022 in New Delhi by Mr Amitabh Kant, the then-CEO of Niti Aayog. In September 2022, Blitz India saw the Mumbai launch. Its Hindi edition was started the same year. The launch of the online UK edition of Blitz India in London in June 2023 attracted the who’s who of Britain and India. The speakers included Gopichand Hinduja, Chairperson, Hinduja Group, and Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India. Lord Swaraj Paul sent a congratulatory video message.
    Blitz India has become a must-read for policymakers, thinkers, and the intelligentsia. Its development journalism has been welcomed by the readers, inspiring editions from all major cities in India and international editions.
    The India of the 21st century has given rise to a new kind of politics and a new governance agenda, to shape a new nation. Blitz India acts as a catalyst in this transformational process and lends momentum to it. The weekly directs its efforts towards ‘building a new nation’, as proclaimed in its tagline.
    Mr Dwivedi started his three-decade-long journalism career with Blitz, a weekly tabloid with focus on investigative journalism, where he worked closely with the founder Mr R.K. Karanjia.
    Mr Sandeepp Saxena is Group CEO Blitz India Media. He has media industry experience of over two decades, including a stint at the Indian Express Group, and part of the launch team of Financial Express, Chandigarh Edition.
    Sandeepp Saxena is also

    • President RCGP 23-24 | Rotary International Distt 3011 India

    • Global Convenor SDG Choupal, a flagship initiative of the Nagrik Foundation (Philanthropy arm of Blitz India Media)

    • Country Director, Eye Foundation of America

    • Founder Blitz Edu Initiatives

  • Blitz India Editor-in-Chief to address the Indian community at the Consulate

    Blitz India Editor-in-Chief to address the Indian community at the Consulate

    Journalists Beyond Borders to be launched at the event graced by leading media persons 

    February 16, 2024

    NEW YORK (TIP): The Editor-in-Chief of Blitz India, Mr. Deepak Dwivedi,  will be the  keynote speaker at a major media event co-organized by the Consulate of India and The Indian Panorama on February 26. Mr. Dwivedi will speak on ‘Indo-US relations with Emphasis on Cooperation in Trade and Commerce, and  with a Special Reference to SDGs’. It is a topic close to the heart of this veteran journalist and academic who launched Blitz India as the country’s first chronicler of development news.

    Blitz India CEO Mr. Sandeepp Saxena, accompanying Mr. Dwivedi on the US visit, will introduce the pioneering newsweekly as an effective platform to channel all efforts in India towards the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    Blitz India has several editions in India and its UK edition was launched last year. Its US launch is scheduled to be launched  on February 25 at the 18th-year Gratitude Gala of The Indian Panorama.

    The February 26 event to be presided over  by  Consul General of India in New York, Ambassador  Binaya Srikanta Pradhan, will also witness the formal launch of body of journalists by the name  ‘Journalists Beyond Borders’(JBB), founded in July 2022 by Prof Indrajit Singh Saluja, chief editor of The Indian Panorama.  JBB aims to unite the fraternity of journalists the world over to protect and promote through journalism human rights, human values, and world peace.  Its greater mission is to use the power of the press to educate people everywhere on the values of non-violence, peaceful coexistence, clean environment, and health for all.

     

  • The Indian Panorama’s 18th-year gala Celebrates Talent, Commitment, Community

    The Indian Panorama’s 18th-year gala Celebrates Talent, Commitment, Community

    Four persons to be honored for their singular achievements

    Guest of Honor Ambassador Binaya Srikant Pradhan, Consul General of India at New York
    Guest of Honor US Congressman Tom Suozzi (NY District 3)

    February 16, 2024

    • By Parveen Chopra

    HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP):  The Indian Panorama is celebrating its 18th year of publication with a Gratitude Gala on February 25 in a grand way. Says its Founding Editor and Publisher Prof Indrajit Singh Saluja, “I want to celebrate community, and say my heartfelt thanks to our readers, friends, supporters, and advertisers for the love and support they have blessed us with all these years.”

    Prof. Indrajit Saluja has become synonymous with his weekly newspaper, a labor of love. He is not only an eminent editor but also a well-respected community leader who has forged links across the ethnic and political spectrum. His friends, supporters, and who’s who of the community are set to grace the gala at the glittering Pearl Banquet Hall in Hicksville not only to felicitate The Indian Panorama but also to wish him a long life on his 80th birthday.

    Dignitaries

    Presiding the delightful event will be Hon. Ruchira Kamboj, India’s Ambassador to the United Nations, the first woman diplomat to hold that position.

    The new Consul General of India in New York, Ambassador  Binaya Srikanta Pradhan will be offered a welcome toast by the community at the event.

    The newly elected Congressman,  Hon’ble Tom Suozzi, whom the Indian Panorama endorsed on the first day of his campaign, has promised ‘my loyal friend’ Prof Saluja that he will be there to personally thank Long Island’s Indian community, with whom he has forged bonds over the years.

    Honorees

    The four eminent people to be honored at the gala with whom The Indian Panorama has had a long association, are:

    Dr. V.K. Raju -Life Achievements Honor

    Dr V.K. Raju – Life Achievement Honor award. The President and Founder of the Eye Foundation of America, he has a mission to eliminate childhood blindness from the world. He has helped start two eye hospitals in India and held free eye camps in 30 developing countries.

    Mrs. Ranju Batra – Excellence in Promotion of Diplomacy Award

    Mrs. Ranju Batra – Excellence in Promotion of Diplomacy Award.  She is the Chairperson of Diwali Foundation USA which holds the Diwali Stamp – Power of One awards event at the UN every year to honor diplomats. She also led the campaign to get USPS to release the Diwali stamp.

    Mr. Harry Singh Bolla – Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award

    Mr. Harry Singh Bolla – Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award. He is the Founder and CEO of Bolla Oil Corporation which runs a chain of gas stations and convenience stores in the New York area. Through his Bolla Charity Foundation, he gives back to the community here and extends help to the needy in India.

    Mrs. Purnima Desai – Excellence in Culture Award

    Mrs. Purnima Desai — Excellence in Culture Award. As Founder and President of Shikshayatan Cultural Center and Sriniketan Foundation, she has been instrumental in encouraging and supporting Indian culture through music and arts training and events. She has also produced and directed over a thousand cultural programs.

     Blitz India US launch

    Mr. Deepak Dwivedi, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, BlitzIndia
    Mr. Sandeepp Saxena, CEO, BlitzIndia

    The Indian Panorama’s gala event will also get an international sheen. The US edition of Blitz India will be jointly launched by its Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Deepak Dwivedi, CEO Sandeepp Saxena, and Prof Saluja. Blitz India, the country’s first chronicler of development news, has several editions in India and was launched in the UK last year.

    Mr. Parveen Chopra, Founder of ALotusInTheMud.com

    At the event for the ages, Prof Saluja will also introduce ALotusInTheMud.com, founded by his friend, Mr. Parveen Chopra. Launched at the Indian Consulate in  January, 2023, Lotus is a web magazine presenting free content on wellness and spirituality, a first by an Indian American.

    The attendees at the gala will also be welcomed and entertained with both traditional Indian and contemporary touches.   

    About Prof Saluja

    Prof. Indrajit S Saluja, Publisher & Chief Editor, The Indian Panorama

    For Prof Saluja, The Indian Panorama is an expression and extension of his love for India as well as a platform to project the rich South Asian culture and how our successful community has made a place in the melting pot of America. A trilingual, he has also helped start newspapers in Hindi and Punjabi.

    Started 18 years ago in New York, The Indian Panorama also has a Dallas edition now. It reaches the Indian diaspora in the entire US and the world. Its editorial content is the right mix of community news as well as Indian and American current affairs.

    Indefatigable Prof Saluja’s spirit and intensity of work belie his years. He came to the US over 20 years ago after having a long career as a Professor of English Literature at leading colleges in India. Alongside, he founded a prominent monthly magazine titled ‘Punjab Beat’.

    Robert Frost’s words “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have miles to go before I sleep”, aptly characterize Prof. Saluja’s journey in life.