Comments on: NYC Desi Youth Activists Get Props

By: ali

ali — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:53:14 +0000

Agree w/ Hamid.

as another afghan, I'd like to mention, we're closer to Iran much more than India & the rest of the south asian countries.

Iran, NWFP, tajikistan, turkmenistan, xinjiang, uzbekistan......

watching bollywood movies doesn't make one an honorary "desi" =.=

By: hamid

hamid — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:50:16 +0000

I'm afghan and I'm NOT desi.

Most afghans don't consider themselves to be South Asian, and certainly not desi - nor connected with these groups: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

We are central asians. Look at our people, and our land - it says it all.

By: muntasir

muntasir — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:15:28 +0000

where do i get a copy of this report?

By: saurav

saurav — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:55:34 +0000

has anyone else had time to read the report and synthesize it?

glance over, yes. synthesize…ummm…. i’ll say this–it’s well designed

By: taz

taz — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:49:43 +0000

Thanks!

This report is ridiculously amazing and 100 pages of well put together facts, figures, testimonials. I’m in crunch mode with finals, has anyone else had time to read the report and synthesize it? I’m definately going to spend some time pouring over the text once life gets less hectic…

Ask and you shall receive, Taz

I would like you to write all my final papers for me!

By: Ask and you shall receive, Taz

Ask and you shall receive, Taz — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:57:31 +0000

Didn't make it to the launch but the report is available here.

By: Ms Fink Nottle

Ms Fink Nottle — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:07:46 +0000

Thanks for a great post. Here’s wishing DRUM the very best in its groundbreaking and much needed efforts!

By: siddhartha m

siddhartha m — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:05:23 +0000

it’s alright PMcG, i’m sure there’s room for both of us in Queen Taz’s harem…

By: PropaMcGandhi

PropaMcGandhi — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:45:26 +0000

Pfft.

By: Saurav

Saurav — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:28:33 +0000

No, I understand this isn't the same, and I understand what you were trying to do with the post. What I was suggesting is that to laud the report for its desi content in order to get to its politics is an interesting tack and posing the Asimov column as a worst-case scenario, not a comparable one for most readers (I hope).

I've been interested lately in how complex the intersection of identity and political mindset is for the purposes of tangible political action--mostly as a result of what I observed of the immigration marches, which probably wouldn't have been possible on that scale without identity politics. So that's where I was coming from.