Vanan Murugesan

We are already collaborating.

The Star Tribune, I believe every Sunday, chooses one article that we run, that we've published, and then they put it into their circulation and say, this is a Sahant Journal article.

First generation viewers and they and they would tell me and it would and frankly, it's the same thing I do when I'm in a foreign country, even for a week.

which is I want to assimilate and understand what's going on locally as quickly as I possibly can.

uh you know because they they realize that of the value of our value in the ecosystem and we also realize that they have the reach that we don't we will never well i wouldn't say we will never get because my team will slaughter me no we are not yeah we're not there yet right yeah so we are cooperating around along those lines um i'm really excited to uh that we are also collaborating we are finding stories that we can collaborate on you know because

What's the best way to do it?

A lot of times it is through the news.

And, you know, maybe there's a language barrier.

And so maybe I'm finding anything that's in my language that still reflects what's going on in the community.

Or maybe you'll find your expat community in a specific city.

But the thing is, is that, you know, the sort of

I think the ignorance sometimes that we portray about how we behave when we move to a new area, we quickly want to assimilate, is how anybody behaves when they move to a new area.

Frankly, I'm sure you are aware of what happened in the first quarter of the year in Minneapolis.

Which is they're constantly looking, but they want to understand the place they're living in.

And so, you know, I know the first thing I'd be doing if I lived in Malaysia would be to find...

the Sunday, whatever the equivalent of the political programs are.

So we found some opportunities to collaborate editorially, and I'm extremely curious to see how that plays out.

Just so I understood the lay of the land, I understood the politics of the area.

Frankly, it's a survival.

It's for survival.