Word: bengalis
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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Fluent in Bengali, English, French, German and Hindi, she has spent much of her time here working on public service projects on campus and around Harvard. She has participated in projects by HAND and Phillips Brooks House. She has volunteered at a battered women's shelter in Central Square. And she has served on the board of Education for Action...
...Waves by Rabindranath Tagore was published exactly 100 years ago, but the great Bengali poet's subject is timeless. His April of cyclones, "blind forms of being," was this year's last day of April for Bangladesh. Twenty- foot walls of water. Demonic winds of crushing force. The horror left behind: 125,000 lives lost, and still counting. A world used to human-scale catastrophes -- plane crashes, say, that kill a few hundred at most -- cannot absorb the biblical dooms that visit Bangladesh. Straddling the conjoined mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers...
Asani teaches a popular Core course, "The Religion and Culture of Islam," and offers instruction in Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Sindhi, and Urdu--the third most common language in the world. In addition, Asani teaches Swahili, the only sub-Saharan African language offered at Harvard...