Veteran journalist, Hon. Lahori Ram Balley

Chetna Association is pleased to announce the recipient of this year's award will be veteran journalist, Hon. Lahori Ram Balley, founder of Bheem Patrika newspaper out of Jalandhar, Punjab, India.

 

As a journalist, Balley has made a life long commitment and expressed

voices of the marginalized people in India. S. Tara Singh Hayer Journalism Award was launched in 2013 by presenting the inaugural awards to Cheryl Chan of the Province Newspaper and Fabian Dawson of Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Desi.

The award is named after Hayer, a journalist and publisher in Surrey who stood by the side of the Canadian Dalits and gave a voice when other media outlets refused to do so in the early 1980s.

 The award will be presented on November 10 in Surrey. For information, please contact Surinder Ranga or Surjit Bain or email at jpbirdi@gmail.com. Info about the venue and time will be provided shortly.