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Ashwini Vasanthakumar ’04 lived in Sri Lanka, Zambia, and Papua New Guinea before her family settled in Canada and she came to Harvard. Now, she’s on her way to England...
Vasanthakumar, who was born in Sri Lanka but is now a Canadian citizen, is one of two Rhodes Scholars from the province of Ontario to win the prestigious scholarship this year...
...senior honors thesis, entitled “Speaking for the Homeland: the Political Activism of Tamils in Toronto,” dealt with the question of whether Tamils—a minority ethnic group in Sri Lanka and India—living in a different part of the world can claim to represent the people of their homeland through activism...
...branch to Christianity. He died without ever realizing his dream of reaching mainland China. And in India, Xavier is infamous as the man who introduced the Inquisition. The visible manifestation of his legacy today is mixed; St. Francis Xavier schools and churches dot his route from southern India to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, but so do Xavier furniture warehouses, bus companies and even, on a beach in northern Goa, Xavier's Rum Pub. The one institution he did build himself, St. Paul's College in Old Goa, is now a forgotten ruin long devoured by jungle...
Mannapperuma, who was born in Sri Lanka, also participated in community service in her home state of California. But her passion for business brought her 3,000 miles away...