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If you could choose the top 100 most influential people in the South Asian community, who would they be?
The Vancouver Sun has taken on this daunting task and is planning a special weekend issue listing its pick of the 100 most influential Indo-Canadians in B.C. The hotly-anticipated list will be published in next Saturday’s edition.
“We wanted to show our readers a side of the Indo-Canadian community that the Sun had never focused on,” said Stewart Muir, deputy managing editor of The Vancouver Sun.
Reporters Kim Bolan and Randy Shore enlisted as their selection experts journalists, artists, business leaders and civil activists from the region’s thriving South Asian community.
“Our journalists had to do their jobs but it was only with the help of the community that we could come up with a list that we could defend,” said Muir.
Muir would not divulge any names from list but said it reflects a wide spectrum of professions and endeavours.
While some of the names on the list might be obvious, others will be a surprise, said Muir, who added he is fully aware that there might be disagreement about who was included and who was excluded from the top 100.
Last year, the Sun ran a similar list of the top 100 most influential Chinese-Canadians and found the mammoth undertaking to be quite successful.
“We discovered to our delight that this was greeted in their community as a symbolic gesture of recognition for achievement,” he said.
The same overture needed to be extended to the South Asian community, the deputy managing editor explained.
Muir hopes the list will spur conversation and excite a productive dialogue within and about the South Asian community.
Find out who the top 100 most influential Indo-Canadians in B.C. are in the Saturday, March 29th edition of The Vancouver Sun.
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