The Indian Journalists' Association in London has elected a woman
president and general secretary for the first time in its 67-year
history.
Aditi Khanna, London correspondent for Press Trust of India becomes IJA
president, and Rupanjana Dutta, Associate Editor of Asian Business
Publications Ltd, its general secretary.
The IJA was set up in May 1947, with the active encouragement from V.K.
Krishna Menon, who subsequently became the first High Commissioner of
independent India in Britain. He allowed the IJA, whose members included
K.S. Shelvankar (then correspondent for The Hindu), Tarapada
Basu, and Sundar Kabadi, to use the India League office, located
conveniently near Fleet Street and the Indian High Commission. He also
located the India Club, which he founded, in the same premises.
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