Manjula Selvarajah (@manjaselva) and Kirthana Sasitharan (@kirthanasasitharan) are this week’s guests on #TheTamilCreator. Manjula is a Toronto-based journalist, a guest host on CBC Ontario’s shows, and co-founder of Tamil Women Rising (@tamilwomenrising). Kirthana is a CBC news reporter and associate producer. They are both co-creators of the “Boldly Asian” series on @CBC.
They join Ara to discuss their friendship, receiving feedback as a creator, their award-winning “Boldly Asian” series, Tamil women helping push other Tamil women’s careers forward, learning to embrace rejection, and much more.
Follow Manjula:
– Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/manjaselva/)
– Twitter (https://twitter.com/manjaselva)
Follow Kirthana:
– Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kirthanasasitharan/)
– Twitter (https://twitter.com/kirthanasasitha)
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Timestamps
00:19 – Ara introduces this week’s guests, Manjula and Kirthana
01:50 – Kirthana speaks on her upbringing, family, and path to becoming a journalist
06:54 – How an electronics class in Nigeria, and Manjula’s dad, changed her life
09:57 – Manjula’s past fertility issues, and how she became a journalist
15:40 – How Kirthana and Manjula met, and the professional journey they’ve been on together
30:09 – Receiving feedback as a creator, the award they won together for creating the Boldly Asian
34:17 – What a pitching process, and a good pitch, consists of
42:29 – What the future of the Boldly Asian series looks like
43:48 – How they view social media, tech sabbaths, the future of creators
55:28 – Their view on good journalists leaving big companies to “do their own thing”
1:04:53 – Advice they would give their 16-year-old selves
1:07:48 – The personal legacies they each want to leave behind
1:15:57 – Creator Confessions
1:28:31 – The Wrap Up
Intro Music
Produced And Mixed By:
– The Tamil Creator
– Yanchan
Written By:
– Aravinthan Ehamparam
– Yanchan Rajmohan
