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...Amar C. Bakshi '06 is a social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator living in Leverett House...
...December 30, 2005, as I sat aboard a British Airways plane headed from Harare to home, a flight attendant tapped me on the shoulder and asked me a simpler question, “Are you Amar Bakshi?” I nodded yes. “Mr. Bakshi, please collect your bags; there are some men waiting for you outside.” Five men in faded tan suits stood on the causeway and told me I was in their world...
...editors: While we agree with the Crimson staff editorial “No House Arrests” (Jan. 12) that the detention of Amar C. Bakshi ’06 in Zimbabwe must not result in the College re-tightening its travel policy, we disagree with the staff’s outlined reasons. The editorial stated that Bakshi’s ordeal should not concern Harvard because it was self-financed and because, under the current policy, it is debatable whether research in a country like Zimbabwe would be eligible for Harvard funding anyway. This argument ignores the main reason...
News of the arrest and detention of Harvard student Amar C. Bakshi ’06 in Zimbabwe came as a surprise to many students and faculty in the College. The idea that a visiting student could get arrested for doing legitimate academic work and be held in a Third World prison in appalling conditions for four days is all but unthinkable for those of us living in cushy Cambridge. Despite the seriousness of what happened, we are pleased that no one in the Office of International Programs nor in the wider College administration is reacting to Bakshi?...
Zimbabwean officials detained Amar C. Bakshi ‘06 on espionage charges late last month after he visited the African country to conduct thesis research on political propaganda, the Leverett House senior said. The increasingly autocratic regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe held the student for five days inside a cell that “reeked of feces,” Bakshi said.Bakshi, who hails from Washington D.C., said he boarded a British Airways jet to return to the United States on Dec. 30, but Zimbabwean authorities called him off the plane and would not let him leave...