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"Since Indians were used as a buffer by the British from Africans, and also because of their long history of trade, Indians tended to be better off. Also because of this, there was some resentment from Africans toward Indians as a minority," Asani says. "[However] there was no segregation between...
Asani says that growing up removed from the events in the subcontinent gave him a more unbiased perspective on South-Asian affairs, which is reflected in his teaching of Urdu-Hindi.
"When I first came to Harvard, the people of South Asian descent were international students directly from the subcontinent, and very few. Now, predominantly people born in the U.S., first generation, second generation," Asani says.
I became aware of kabaddi's believability problem in 1994, when I mentioned in print that I had been in Japan during the Asian Games, which included a demonstration of an ancient sport from the Indian subcontinent called kabaddi. So what's so hard to believe about that? "Well, there...
Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, paying a first-ever visit to the Indian subcontinent, thrust himself into the middle of a long-running border dispute. India should be restored to its pre-1947 boundaries, he declared, a fiat that would effectively wipe Pakistan and Bangladesh off the map.