Word: gayatri
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...trip to India, Jacqueline Kennedy visited one of the few women in the world who might be considered her peer in the pantheon of legendary beauties: Gayatri Devi, who died July 29 at age 90. Like Kennedy, Devi entered public life through marriage, when she became the third wife of the maharaja of Jaipur in 1940. But unlike the First Lady, Devi never left it. Willowy and doe-eyed, she was a thoroughly modern princess who served three terms in Parliament, crusaded for girls' education and adapted her sense of noblesse oblige to India's changing realities...
...granting autonomy to departments of regional and ethnic studies, academics may think they are allowing marginalized historical characters to have voice in their own domain. But as literary critic and social theorist Gayatri Spivak writes in her article, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”(1988), post-colonial initiatives such as these may in fact be complicit in the task of imperialism. In creating a forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized...
...also not trying to imply that these communities are ungrateful for our help. Service trips have undoubtedly had an extensive impact on the development of regions—especially regions struck by serious disasters, such as the Gulf Coast. Gayatri S. Datar ’07, a leader of multiple trips to the gulf coast, observed that “volunteer efforts are really what’s pushing things through” in the Gulf Coast region...
...Over intersession, more than 20 students worked at a charter high school and one of the few remaining public elementary schools in parts of the city affected, though not devastated, by the storm. Gayatri S. Datar ’07 said she was initially hopeful about the city’s possible recovery...
...They don’t want to be pitied,” Gayatri S. Datar ’07 said of New Orleanians...