Word: bakshis
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...State Department spokeswoman confirmed last week that the Zimbabwean government detained Amar C. Bakshi ’06 for five days while he was visiting the country during winter recess...
...Bakshi, a senior in Leverett House, was conducting research for a joint social studies and visual and environmental studies thesis on political propaganda. While aboard his departure flight at Harare airport on Dec. 30, he was arrested and detained for “possessing videocassettes related to his research,” a spokeswoman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, Angela P. Aggeler, wrote in an e-mail...
...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...