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...Kirkland House, Caitlin E. Barrett, Leslie C. Chu, Kristin L. Hoelting, Fatima Raja, Jeffrey M. Theodore and Morgan W. Tingley...
Meenakshi Iyer was heading home to her husband when a Hindu gang boarded her bus, baying for Muslim blood. As a Hindu, Iyer was safe. But she knew the man beside her, Raja Chowdhury, would be killed if they discovered he was a Muslim. "I'm Mrs. Iyer," she told the mob, "and this is Mr. Iyer, my husband," she lied, introducing Chowdhury. And that was it. The gang moved on, questioning other passengers, forcing men they doubted to prove they weren't circumcised...
...weak and vulnerable to further illness. She's wary of planning her wedding to Png, more than a year away, fearing she may not survive that long. "I feel I'm still living a nightmare," she says. She is, at any rate, still living. In June, fellow Singaporean Selvarani Raja, a 43-year-old logistics manager at Singapore Technologies, died from liver failure. She had started taking the same diet supplement, Slim 10, in April...
Some suggested that the term may not be as offensive as it would have been if used decades earlier. Sen said some Pakistanis are appropriating the word for themselves. Fatima Raja ’03, a Pakistani, said the slur seemed to be gaining a modicum of acceptance...
...think it’s offensive but I feel that recently it’s been getting less so. No Pakistani from Pakistan would use that word but a Pakistani-American or a Pakistan from Britain might,” Raja said...