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...Pray section turns out to be the most interesting part. Gilbert can overcharm at times--she suffers from an addiction to cleverness--but her account of her time in India is beautiful and honest and free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here once you have...
Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 is a Sanskrit and Indian studies and government concentrator in Eliot House. Benjamin B. Collins ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. Both are members of the divestment wing of the Harvard Darfur Action Group...
...heritage, this attraction does not compromise the intellectual reasons why many South Asian students eventually commit themselves to the subject,” she said. While the faculty present at the meeting supported the suggestions of the students, Parimal G. Patil, assistant professor of Study of Religion and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, encouraged students to look to the future of the South Asian Studies program. “One of the most essential things we need to do is to give the momentum to younger students for South Asian initiatives,” he said. “It will...
...Studies. Controversy arose over a section of the resolution that called for “representation on relevant committees and increased collaboration with faculty.” Under Section IV of the resolution, the SAA and SASI would appoint two students to the South Asia Initiative, the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, and the Standing Committee on South Asian Studies. Ricky B. Shah ’09 introduced an amendment that would allow the UC to work in conjunction with the SAA to select the members for this committee. “It would provide a sense of legitimacy...
...said that the president was clearly frustrated with the dean’s practice of skimming over difficult issues rather than thoroughly addressing them. Kirby and Summers have “very different personalities,” Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, the chair of the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department, said yesterday. “I always felt Dean Kirby was very conciliatory and very willing to listen to different sides, and I’m not sure if the president is cut from the same cloth.”Several sources expressed concern that the news...