It takes a lot to be successful in life. Time, opportunities, hard work and recognition could get you up there among the best, but it takes a special kind of person to make the cover of magazine(s).
What is even more amazing is that only a few American magazines prominently feature “outsiders” on their covers, let alone their stories, which is what makes SAJA’s collection so very impressive.
For my fellow bloggers who are not aware of SAJA, please take a look at Anantha’s coverage of their Annual conference. I managed to miss it this year because of a last minute medical situation that needed more attention, but I am already planning on making it next year. Besides, they have a mailing list that goes out as soon as someone spots a South Asian story, as a blogger, they are like your own little South Asian google alerter 
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The good folks over at SAJA have collected South Asian covers and they have added their hundredth cover.
If you do find a magazine cover not featured in there, contact them and get them to add it to their collection. You never know when we might need it. And if you are a blogger interested in networking and knowing more about the South Asian media coverage, get yourself on their mailing list and start packing your bags for SAJA 08.
For the trivia lovers, we have some from Sree’s email after the jump.
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was popular with the editors of Time. He made the cover six times, his daughter, Indira Gandhi and the most famous Indian of them all, Mahatma Gandhi (no relation, of course), only three times each (see results for a search of “Gandhi”).
Gandhi’s first appearance, in March 1930, is in a drawing so unusual that you may not recognize him.
In the run-up to Partition, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and Sardar Patel, a major Congress leader, both made the cover once each.
Nehru’s repeated appearances show you how the world has changed. I can’t easily imagine a near-term scenario when a leader from anywhere in South Asia makes multiple appearances on the covers of the U.S. editions of Time or Newsweek. I would love to be proven wrong, of course.
While three other British Viceroys made the cover of Time (Irwin, Linlithgow, Wavell), Lord Louis Mountbatten never made the cover as Viceroy (he did make the cover, in June 1942, for his leadership during World Word II).
The nuclear test of May 1998 by India and Pakistan did not get full cover treatment in the U.S. As you can see from this Time cover, Frank Sinatra’s death moved the test to a secondary story and a cover mention; same thing for that week’s Newsweek.
We couldn’t find Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on a major U.S. magazine cover – though he must have made it at least one – let us know if you know of one.
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