Aniket De

Culture

Op-Ed: Culture is more than descent

By Aniket De | September 23

“Culture is more than fact,” pontificates the Sept. 16 Tufts Daily editorial lampooning white instructors teaching South Asian culture classes, “it is the emotion, habit and ritual formed from accumulated and shared experience. It flows from community.” It is therefore downright insensitive ...

Opinion

Dialogic disjunctions: diasporas, debates and “international” students at Tufts

By Aniket De | February 29

About two years ago, as some elephants on campus might remember, an Indian American student had fervently expressed her anxiety over a “color run” organized by a Tufts fraternity; it was, for her, a blatant cultural appropriation of the festival Holi, and she argued that Hindu students should have ...

Aniket De

Op-Ed: Culture is more than descent

Dialogic disjunctions: diasporas, debates and “international” students at Tufts

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