ASUC meeting erupts in controversy over resolution regarding India, Kashmir
Brianna Luna/Staff
Wednesday night’s ASUC Senate meeting erupted in controversy, as the ASUC commented on issues regarding India and Kashmir.
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Eating my way through India
Each meal I eat is an acknowledgement of the diverse communities that are represented in my family, and I’m grateful to have access to so many.
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Lands of the free: Independence days around the world
While barbecuing and enjoying fireworks define of Independence Day in the United States, other nations have their own traditions to celebrate liberation.
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UC Berkeley Sikh Student Association releases letter in opposition to proposed endowment
The Institute of South Asia Studies, or ISS, proposed an endowed program with the government of India on Feb. 11, according to the letter. This proposal calls for an endowed professorship position in Sikh and Punjabi studies in exchange for $9 million from the government of India.
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A childhood home, an adult haven: A personal essay
I have been traveling to Mumbai, India since I was 2 years old, and I have loved it there since day one. I have a particular love for Dadar, a small suburb on the very coast of Mumbai. The streets of Dadar are crowded with tiny shops and street vendors,
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Learning my ABCDs
Cal in Color
For most people, ABCD is the beginning of the English alphabet. But for American-Born, Confused Desis like me, it’s an acronym, an insult, a joke and an identity, all wrapped up in four letters. Calling me an ABCD invalidates my experience of being Desi, or a person of South Asian
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Not a 2nd-class traveler
Off the Beat
Everywhere I travel, my family has had to both reassert our identity and tolerate the casual racism from enough of the locals for it to become a discernible issue. I am fed up with a binary system that refuses to accept that I am just as American as any white individual born and raised in the United States of America.
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A picture-imperfect holiday
Off the Beat
My holiday season always begins the same way — I sit impatiently in an almost-empty BART train car hurtling itself away from the chaotic streets of Downtown Berkeley to the sleepy suburbs of the South Bay. Phone in hand, I scroll absentmindedly through my Instagram feed, sifting through perfectly filtered
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The layover
Between America and Me
“You’re not American? But you speak such good English!” I’m in my freshman year dining hall, making new friends over cold pizza and casual racism. Casual because my classmate doesn’t seem to be overtly prejudiced, and they’re definitely not aware of their faux pas. I shrug and inform them that
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Do it for the ‘gram
Lost in Translation
There comes a point in every international student’s freshman semester when they have to make an overwhelmingly difficult decision — to post or not to post? After the initial radio silence on social media as you focus on fitting in, figuring out an academic schedule and life without your parents,
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