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...Farming families like the Kumars, from the Nanuku squatter settlement on the coast near Suva, were among those who lost their farms and were driven into the city in the late 1990s. "My father and I went twice to the landowners to ask them to renew the lease," says Rohit Kumar. "But both times they refused. I was crying when I left. I was looking around seeing this place I had grown up farming, seeing the place where I used to play as a little boy." Today Kumar, his wife and four children are crammed into...
...sophomore Sasha Ermakov played masterfully with Ashwin Kumar, as the pair repeatedly confounded their opponents by turning balls that looked like excellent passing shots into deceptive, sharply angled drop volleys...
...against No. 3 Virginia in a match where the score did not reflect the close matches that characterized Crimson play. “The team showed some strength,” senior co-captain Scott Denenberg said. “Gideon [Valkin] had a close match, Ashwin [Kumar] had a good win, I had a close match, Dan [Nguyen] had a close match. A few of those flip-flop or we win a doubles point, and the match could have gone the other way.” After a slow start for Harvard, the outcome of the match seemed...
...team of juniors Dan Nguyen and Kieran Burke lost to Svigelj and Marc Jaeger, 8-1, and at No. 3, co-captain Scott Denenberg and freshman Michael Hayes lost to the Bulls’ Thomas Estrada and Mahmoud Hamed, 8-5. At No. 1 doubles, Valkin and junior Ashwin Kumar picked up Harvard’s lone doubles win with a score of 8-6, coming back from an early 1-6 deficit. “They were very strong,” Fish said of the Bulls. “That’s usually not a good sign...
...novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri that served as inspiration for the film.Rather, it’s the sophomoric type of work that many think Penn eschewed with “The Namesake”: 2004’s “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” where Penn plays a prospective medical student on an epic quest for fast food after smoking too much pot and getting the munchies.According to Penn at an interview with college journalists, upon discovering that renowned director Mira Nair ’79 (“Monsoon...