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When Afsana, an 18-year-old Muslim living on the outskirts of the Gujarati capital of Ahmadabad, heard last Wednesday that a Muslim mob had torched a train, the Sabarmati Express, at Godhra, she was appalled - and very, very frightened. She knew that revenge would be nigh. Her neighborhood, Naroda, is largely Hindu. On the day after the Godhra killings, local Hindu leaders gathered a crowd of 2,000 residents and gave them simple instructions: Muslims had to be destroyed. When part of the mob reached Afsana's house, she fled with her five-year-old brother to a Hindu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing Thy Neighbor | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Unlike other parts of the Boston area, Saint-Louis said Cambridge does not have a dominant non-English language. She said the Cambridge Health Alliance has interpreters for up to 30 languages, with the main ones being Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Haitian Creole, Gujarati, Bengali, Cape Verdian and French...

Author: By Kiratiana E. Freelon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Barrios Bill Would Mandate Interpreters in ER | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

Interspersed between other acts, cast members came out in front of the curtain to read poems in many of the languages spoken in South Asia, including Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Telegu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Sinhalese and English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Years of CELEBRATING | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...Interspersed between other acts, cast members came out in front of the curtain to read poems in many of the languages spoken in South Asia, including Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Telegu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Sinhalese and English...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ten Years of Celebrating South Asia | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Asani teaches a popular Core course, "The Religion and Culture of Islam," and offers instruction in Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Sindhi, and Urdu--the third most common language in the world. In addition, Asani teaches Swahili, the only sub-Saharan African language offered at Harvard...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: South Asian Instruction May Be Cut | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

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