Word: indianism
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...Indian people of Bolivia are not rich. They do not live in the moneyed neighborhoods of La Paz. They are subsistence farmers and coca growers and miners. They are the present and they are the protesters. For Quechua and the Aymara people, the natives of Bolivia, their identity is bound tightly in race or non-race (non-whiteness...
Bolivia’s new government must address their true divisions themselves. The new president, Carlos Mesa, has taken one positive step in appointing an Indian cabinet minister to handle “ethnic affairs.” But Bolivia’s race problem is not something that can be so reduced and cordoned off. It must be addressed head-on. Policy concessions about the International Monetary Fund or exports to the United States will only serve to temporarily quell the fires that light La Paz and El Alto tonight. Until there is an open and public dialogue between...
...dances were choreographed by the students, many of whom have been training in classical Indian dance for most of their lives...
Friday’s show opened with a piece performed by Suratha Elango ’06 and Manisha Munshi ’06, which Nambudiri explained was intended to awaken the audience to the traditions of Indian Classical Dance with an invocation...
...think it’s hot that so many people have studied Indian classical dance for so many years,” she said. “And their faces are so expressive...