India Currents Writers Win Five Awards At The 2025 San Francisco Press Club Gala

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India Currents writers won top awards in the Print/Digital Small Newsroom category at the 2025 San Francisco Press Club Journalism Awards.

Finalists and winners celebrated at the 48th Annual San Francisco Press Club Awards gala held on December 9th at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Merchants Exchange Building in downtown San Francisco.

This year’s entries showcased outstanding storytelling, meticulous reporting, and deep commitment to the profession, with a record-breaking 910 submissions this season. The contest was judged by a panel of independent judges, including journalists in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Little Rock.

Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer of KQED hosted the sold out event.

India Currents winners included:

COLUMNS- SPORTS
First Place
This Sporting Life
Meera Kymal
Tanay Gokhale

Meera Kymal’s personal narrative “A Desi Girl Goes to Paris,’ reflects on her life in Paris in the millennium versus a visit to the City of Lights in the run-up to the July 2024 Olympics; Tanay Gohkale’s ‘Mansher Khera’s ‘New Era’ is Dawning‘ is the unique story of a talented desi prospect in the hallowed Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) roster, and ‘Mahantesh GK’s Dream Is To Grow Blind Cricket In The United States‘ features a blind cricketer’s advocacy in the US.

SPORTS FEATURE
Second Place
Tanay Gokhale

Mansher Khera’s New Era Is Dawning won again for a sports story showcasing the talented Queens-born UFC fighter.

PROFILE
Second Place
Peoplewatch
Tanay Gokhale
Nandita Bose
Kani Illangovan

Peoplewatch profiled inspiring individuals breaking barriers: queer recording artist and performer Miraaj in Tanay Gokhale’s ‘I Will Be Like The Cosmic Dancer‘; Captain Shanti Sethi (Retd.), the first American of Indian origin to command a guided missile destroyer in the US Navy in Nandita Bose’s ‘I Watched Her Run War Games’; and a trailblazing LGBTQ+ advocate in Kani Illangovan’s ‘At Desi Rainbow, Aruna Rao Creates Safe Spaces.‘

FEATURE STORY/LIGHT SUBJECT
Third Place
This Immigrant Life
Ashwini Gangal

Ashwini Gangal’s amusing trilogy featured the trials and tribulations of newly-arrived immigrants to US shores in ‘Are You An Expat Or An Immigrant?‘, ‘Brown Gaze: The Silent Language Of Indian Strangers In An Adopted Country,’ and ‘A Desi Immigrant Lost English Words & Found Them In Transition.’

HEADLINE
Third Place
Meera Kymal

This headline Breakfast in Lahore, lunch in Amritsar and dinner in Bangalore❤️ introduced a poignant story about an Indian writer making a nostalgic visit to her father’s ancestral home in Pakistan.