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Hundreds of members of the Harvard community lit candles last night in Memorial Hall in remembrance of the victims of last month’s earthquake in South Asia. Attendees were greeted by a large screen with a slide show of the devastation in Kashmir, including the individual faces of those affected by the earthquake. The service was an interfaith gathering with readings from the sacred traditions of the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, which were followed by a song and speakers. Asim Ijaz Khwaja, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
Laying the framework for a uniform policy on donations to disaster aid funds, University President Lawrence H. Summers announced on Friday that Harvard will offer financial contributions to University groups organizing Kashmir earthquake relief efforts.In a letter to the Harvard community released nearly one month after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake devastated parts of South Asia, Summers pledged University funding “on a case-by-case basis to groups of University members who, with compassion and imagination, have devised ways to contribute to the ongoing relief efforts in Pakistan.”In the statement, Summers also outlined...
...Agony of Kashmir...
More than 50,000 people died in the Kashmir earthquake [Oct. 24], hundreds of thousands are injured, a whole generation has disappeared, children are orphans, and villages are completely destroyed. But Pakistan's citizens got together and responded to calls for help. Expatriate Pakistanis all over the world offered to adopt orphans. It was as if the whole country had suddenly changed from a self-interested, disunited nation into a cohesive force facing the disaster...
...pages that comprise Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, “Shalimar the Clown,” he carries us spellbound from Hinduism to Nazism, Krishna to Allah, and Kashmir to California. Along the way, he examines and shatters traditional notions of love, vengeance, nationalism, seduction, and betrayal. By the end of this journey, Rushdie forces readers to realize that when all masks and motives are stripped away, there are no winners and losers, only interconnected individuals with a present to be lived and a past to be learned and retold. Throughout, Rushdie uses a subtle, potent...