Around the World 2016

“Sri Lanka, India, same thing.” The old man casually threw that sentence in my face after asking about my ethnicity, like we were discussing an age-old question of “tomeighto” versus “tomauto.” And just like that, I pictured a jumbo eraser rubbing away the borders of my tiny island like it didn’t exist.

Few UC Berkeley students, however, are aware that one of the earliest on-campus demonstrations happened in 1908 outside Stiles Hall by a group of Indian students.