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...that? You have to have somebody implement a long-term program to take account of the way the world is changing--weapons proliferation, what kind of cover you need and what sort of security clearance you really need to work at the CIA. How do you hire a Pakistani Urdu speaker who immigrated here when he was 6 years old and get him through a security exam? Under the old rules, he's got too much baggage...
...Britain's growing Muslim and South Asian character. The 29-year-old author, Gautam Malkani, is dripping with street cred, having grown up in Hounslow before moving on to a Cambridge degree and a senior job in journalism. The novel is written in an imaginative mix of English, Punjabi, Urdu, profanity, gangsta rap and mobile-phone texting. (As in, "Shudn't b callin us Pakis, innit, u dirrty gora.") Its multiculti flavor has led to Malkani being hailed in the celebrity-hungry British press as the next Monica Ali or Zadie Smith in a line of hot young "ethnic" writers...
...while he promotes the book. (A U.S. tour is scheduled for the summer.) "Not at all. At school I was a swot, into books." But Malkani did grow up firmly in the middle of desi culture, despite his mother's insistence that he speak English at home instead of Urdu or his father's ancestral Sindhi. "At Cambridge I did a social sciences degree, and when it came time for my dissertation, I said I wanted to write about rudeboys. Suddenly there was this whole phenomenon in the early 1990s of young men who'd had enough of pandering...
...century: a woman simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary, who transcended her role and started a broad movement for justice.”The Crimson interviewed Mai after her speech this past Saturday at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The interview was conducted in Urdu and English though an interpreter, Hassan Abbas, a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government.The Harvard Crimson: Tell us about the work you’re doing now, especially in regards to education.Mukhtar Mai: We now have the first schools in Meerwala [a town in Southeastern Pakistan]. I think education...
According to Day, the list of languages includes Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean...