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...time when the world is supposed to be more interconnected than ever, isn't there something a little odd about the rush to fortification? It's as if countries have decided, "I'm happy to do business with you, but just don't come near me," veteran Indian journalist Suman Dubey told me recently. "We're opening our minds and economies to each other, but physically we're making it harder than ever to move around...
...South Asian authors spoke to students last night about being Indian immigrants and incorporating their experiences into their fiction. The South Asian Association hosted writers Rishi Reddi and Pradeep Anand, two authors who recently published narratives drawing from their personal histories. Reddi, whose short story “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy” appeared first in the “Harvard Review” and later in the 2005 edition of “The Best American Short Stories,” began the discussion with a disclaimer. “I have to say I feel like...
...shock of the carnage, followed by the surge of attention from every part of the world, severely taxed the students and staff of the university. They managed, however, to answer questions with composure and in dozens of languages. University public relations people found Indian students to speak to Indian media, Korean students to speak to Korean media, German-speaking students to speak to German media - and so on around the globe...
...with a vice president from J.P. Morgan & Co., Gordon Wasson, who - in the racial and stilted language of the day - called himself and a photographer friend "the first white men in recorded history to eat the divine mushrooms." He meant psychedelic mushrooms, which Wasson had found in an Indian village in Mexico...
...into a nation and propel that nation to greatness. Needless to say, we all know the name of this esteemed institution: the University of Henrico in Henricus, Virginia. Lucky for us, construction was delayed indefinitely when the town was destroyed by the small event named by historians as the Indian Massacre of 1622. Whew. Close one. We were almost the Yale of Hernico...