EP #55: Manjula Selvarajah & Kirthana Sasitharan - CBC Journalists Behind The Award-Winning "Boldly Asian" Series

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)Timestamps00:19 - Ara introduces this week’s guests, Manjula and Kirthana01:50 - Kirthana speaks on her upbringing, family, and path to becoming a journalist06:54 - How an electronics class in Nigeria, and Manjula’s dad, changed her life09:57 - Manjula’s past fertility issues, and how she became a journalist15:40 - How Kirthana and Manjula met, and the professional journey they’ve been on together30:09 - Receiving feedback as a creator, the award they won together for creating the Boldly Asian34:17 - What a pitching process, and a good pitch, consists of42:29 - What the future of the Boldly Asian series looks like43:48 - How they view social media, tech sabbaths, the future of creators55:28 - Their view on good journalists leaving big companies to “do their own thing”1:04:53 - Advice they would give their 16-year-old selves1:07:48 - The personal legacies they each want to leave behind1:15:57 - Creator Confessions1:28:31 - The Wrap UpIntro MusicProduced And Mixed By:- The Tamil Creator- YanchanWritten By:- Aravinthan Ehamparam- Yanchan Rajmohan    Support the show