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...first met Duane during Freshman Week four years ago. He had kindly e-mailed a welcome and invitation to lunch to the incoming Indian freshmen, and I was excited to meet the president of Native Americans at Harvard College...
...point in our conversation, Duane pointed out a student wearing an Atlanta Braves shirt, prominently featuring a controversial Indian mascot. I personally do not support these mascots, feeling they stereotype and harm real, living Indian people. I had even written a speech on this issue for high school forensics tournaments. None of this, however, prepared me for what Duane did next...
Duane truly was a leader, in every sense of the word. Duane supported each member of our Indian community, especially acting as a mentor and personal friend to freshmen. Duane knew that there were so few Indian students at Harvard. Rather than bemoan this fact, he sought to change it. He was active in minority affairs on campus, serving as the Harvard Foundation’s Student Advisory Council co-chair in 2002 and 2003. Duane explained that he served in this capacity specifically because there were so few Indians at Harvard during his SAC tenure. Since small numbers could...
Although Duane’s own personal academic endeavor has been cut short, the impact he had on the lives of Indian and other students at Harvard remains. Duane lived life as an extremely confident person, and his mannerisms will live on in our memories. His characteristic chuckle, his emphatic tone of voice during debates on Indian issues, his dedication to things that mattered to him, his goodwill and love for friends and family—all of these characteristics will stay with each person he met and touched at Harvard...
Only the deaf know Hounslow. The west London borough sits uncomfortably beneath the flight paths of nearby Heathrow Airport, where many of the vicinity's largely immigrant Indian and Pakistani residents labor as porters, cleaners and security guards - dreaming of escape, a better life for their children and, for now, triple-glazed windows to block out the noise. Yet Hounslow is about to become famous for another, similarly noisy local feature: a violent, hip-hop-infused, South Asian youth culture that is the subject of perhaps the year's most loudly hyped first novel. The talk of last fall...