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...blog Boston Confidential: "Miss Viswanathan’s story is based on her own life, a tale of an ultra-achieving Indian girl whose ambitions seem boundless and whose (apparently) Machiavellian methods are perhaps too eagerly rewarded by over-indulgent parents." Replace "Indian" with another category (besides "East Asian," which has a similar reputation)—try it with, say, "French"—and this claim doesn’t quite make sense...
University President Lawrence H. Summers and Director of the South Asia Initiative (SAI) Sugata Bose spoke on the rise of India and U.S.-India relations at a South Asian Association event last night. Summers discussed the ways India and the U.S. have developed closer ties in recent years, citing President George W. Bush’s work with the Indo-U.S. Treaty. The treaty, which will likely be ratified by Congress, will legitimize India’s nuclear possessions and allow India to increase its supply. “India has first rate scholars, it has the English language...
When History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 1981 and took a position as an assistant professor of Japanese history, he says he knew it was a position “with essentially no prospect offered for tenure...
...There is a stereotype about you, that you have a certain affinity, both in friendship and romance, for Asian girls. Do you feel that you’ve gotten any understanding of that here? Or with your fiancée? What is this fascination with women of Asian descent...
...Yeah, I have friends in [Asian-music-oriented a capella group] C-Sharp, and I think they’re great. I really love those songs. If there was one group I would join, that would be it. But, I don’t speak Chinese, so it would be tough...