Word: nair
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...seems fitting that Mira Nair, the renowned film director and producer who achieved international acclaim with her hit film Monsoon Wedding, would have come to Harvard because she saw the campus in a movie...
Love Story, the film inflicted upon thousands of first-years each fall during freshman week, presented Nair with her first picture of Harvard. Dissatisfied with her first year at the University of Delhi and on the lookout for a big American University that could give her a scholarship, Nair saw the film and figured that Harvard was a contender, she says...
Previous recipients of the award include Jack Lemmon ’47, John Updike ’54 and Mira Nair...
...this year’s honored Arts Medal recipient, Ma’s name will be added to an elite list of past-winning Harvard alumni that includes filmmaker Mira Nair ’79, director Peter Sellars ’80, author John Updike ’54, singer Bonnie Raitt ’72 and the late actor Jack Lemmon...
...came from India to Harvard in 1976," Nair recalls, "and I was one of only three Indians in the undergraduate class. Five years ago, when I went back, Harvard had 1,500 South Asian students. Which means in five more years, America will be run by people who look like us. We bear no illusions about the elite anymore. We are the elite...