Word: asani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize too that the student is in an extraordinary situation. "Because there's only one student its very intensive. He's constantly under pressure. That tires the student out quickly. And once I see that happening, I get away from the subject, Instructor in Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani says. Asani says he tries to make class "very informal. I sometimes meet with the student at home, you know, over...
...musicology. Other say the small course allowed them to learn more specifically what they were interested in. "It's impossible for me to imagine what we are doing if there was even my own shadow visiting," says Jayasinhji Jhala, who is the only student in a class taught by Asani on Gugarati, a regional Indian language...
...Asani says his class is "the ideal teaching situation. I sort of believe that a teacher should not only know the student academically, but in a personal way. It's more like the traditional (in a European sense) student-mentor relationship or the tradition in the Islamic world where you sit with a guru and you learn thins on a one-to-one basis...
...Khan" which has in the past frequently appeared as "Kahn" Now, please remember, while "Khan" does occur as a last name among peoples of the West and South Asia, in the case of this generous Harvard alumnus and benefactor, it is the second word in a title! Ali S. Asani Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture