Week explores South Asian heritage

University Wire;  January 15, 2008 ;     656 words ......he was for what he says is a strong South Asian base at UCLA and the university's cultural...the performance as part of the annual South Asian Heritage week, which is a series of cultural events designed to unite various South Asian students. Monday's event, co-hosted...

Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain

Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......WILSON, Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain. London: Pluto Press...known name in coloured feminist and South Asian activist circles in Britain for the...to present the individuality of each South Asian community in Britain. This individuality...

South Asian women at Brown U. examine sexuality, ethnicity in monologues

University Wire;  March 21, 2005 ;     528 words ......Herald) (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- South Asian women are speaking out about their vaginas...surrounding sexuality that is so pervasive in South Asian culture. "The Secret Life of My Vagina...of monologues written and produced by South Asian women at Brown University, examines...

Students wage campaign for South Asian Studies program at Berkeley

India Abroad;  November 9, 2001 ;     681 words ......11-09-2001 Students wage campaign for South Asian Studies program at Berkeley A group of South Asian students at the University of California...have been waging a campaign to bring a South Asian Studies program to their campus. It has...

Cultural event at Brown U. features South Asian diversity

University Wire;  March 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ......U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- This year's South Asian Students Association's cultural show...Street pedestrians to test knowledge of South Asian geography. To the amusement of the audience...participants in the show were mainly South Asian, there were students wearing saris and...

South Asian writers fear the popularity of their work may be a passing...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON _ By any measure, South Asian writers have done well in the West...that success is making devotees of South Asian literature just a little self-conscious _ and a little nervous. South Asian writing may be hotter than curry...

200 writers attend South Asian literary festival

India Abroad;  October 31, 2003 ;     571 words ......others attended the second annual South Asian Literary Arts and Theater Festival organized by the Network of South Asian Professionals in the District of...awarded the inaugural First Words South Asian Literary Prize. The first, second...

Just Another New Yorker: You don't have to play a South-Asian if you are...

India Abroad;  August 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ......New Yorker: You don't have to play a South-Asian if you are one, or the other way round Is the South Asian preoccupation on the part of South Asians...of work that does not suffer from the South Asian syndrome, to coin a malaise? Or are...

Project Impact celebrates South Asian writing

India Abroad;  November 12, 2004 ;     455 words ......11-12-2004 Project Impact held its first South Asian literary celebration October 23 with...keynote speaker. In Ink: A Celebration of South Asian Writing, at the University of Pennsylvania...spokesperson. For more than a decade, South Asian writers have captured the attention...

Looking Out For Our Own: New organization focuses on South Asian housing...

AsianWeek;  May 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......when she was recently working with a South Asian taxi driver facing eviction. The driver...challenges that faces Chhaya, the first South Asian community development corporation that...ASIANS EMERGE The existence of the first South Asian community development corporation is...

The Opposite of Bollywood; 3rd I brings underground South Asian film to...

AsianWeek;  March 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Kaur, Meeta AsianWeek 03-12-2003 South Asian cinema has washed up onto British and...have begun to be told. In fact, some South Asian Brits and Americans are trading in unforgettable...circuit for independent, underground South Asian film, believe they are onto something...

South Asian Union Workers Slap Liberalization Policy

Xinhua English Newswire;  May 24, 1996 ;     166 words ...South Asian trade union workers meeting here this...statement issued Thursday by an on-going South Asian conference said development plans initiated...labor experts at the meeting also urged South Asian governments to adopt labor laws and economic...

Students Demand South Asian Studies

AsianWeek;  October 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ......AsianWeek 10-31-2001 Students Demand South Asian Studies In one day the World Trade Center...on innocent Americans -- many of them South Asian. With the rise in hate crimes against...have felt a sense of urgency to build a South Asian center on campus, and to establish a...

Building a U.S./South Asian left

Dollars & Sense;  November 1, 1998 ;     280 words ...Too often being a radical South Asian in the United States seems to mean not being South Asian at all, observes Vijay Prashad, an active...radical and U.S. politics. To stimulate South Asian youth's involvement in the U.S. left, for...

SOUTH ASIAN POST OF CANADA GETS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AWARD

The Hindustan Times;  November 11, 2008 ;     308 words ......Syndication. Vancouver, Nov. 11 -- (IANS) The South Asian Post has been awarded the prestigious...journalism in British Columbia. The South Asian Post was awarded the award for reporting...for nearly four years - a first for a South Asian publication. A series of investigative...