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...wave, no wave, post punk, prepunk, indie, crust, and whatnot that we can damn well get our hands on.” And their focus is no longer “geared to the tastes of Harvard,” as it was in the 1950s. WHRB President Ashwin Vasan ’99 told The Crimson in 1998 that “Our audience base is not students. The fact that we are in some sense ‘college radio’ is only reflected by the fact that we are staffed and run by undergraduates...
...appreciated Summers’ interest in the rise of South Asia. “President Summers obviously understood this in a way that few others at Harvard do. We’re concerned there will be a slowdown” under Harvard’s next president. Arjun Vasan ’07, co-president of SAA, said he felt the discussion would motivate people to study abroad and take more classes in South Asian language and culture. “Harvard does have these resources to do great things with South Asian studies,” he said...
...part of the world or one racial background who—despite that common bond—exhibit divergent cultural identities.For instance, the South Asian Association’s area of focus includes over 1.3 million people and dozens of languages.The group’s co-president, Arjun Vasan ’07, said that South Asian students used to be members of an even broader cross-ethnic coalition of Asians.But in 1986, South Asian students moved to “shoot off” from the pan-Asian group and concentrate on a narrower geographic base, Vasan said...
...Although it would be too much to say that the show went off without a hitch—problems of the technical variety, unfortunately, were plentiful—the 17th annual celebration of South Asian culture, produced by Alka R. Tandon ’07 and Arjun Vasan ’07 and directed by Saikat Chakrabarti ’07, Kamilka Malwatte ’07, and Tilottama Riya Sen ’07, overcame these difficulties with an infectious sense of fun. Modern and classical acts alike took to the stage (and were often combined together), interspersed...
...lyrics with pulsating rhythms. Sketches satirizing Indian culture bookended acts like the Raas Gujarati dance, which was performed with sticks. Tickets for Ghungroo were in high demand. The Saturday night performance was sold out in less than two days, according to Ghungroo co-producer and SAA co-president Arjun Vasan ’07. “This was the fastest selling Ghungroo ever,” said Ghungroo House Manager Vikas V. Mouli ’09. Some students who hadn’t snapped up tickets quickly enough sent out requests on open-lists, But Mouli and Vasan...