{"id":718,"date":"2004-11-21T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=718"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:27","slug":"three_new_desi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/21\/three_new_desi\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new desi Rhodes Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>It&#8217;s our favorite scheme by a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfopedia.org\/wiki.phtml?title=Rhodes_Scholar\">racist diamond magnate<\/A> to civilize the natives by re-educating them in jolly old England! Three desis <A href=\"http:\/\/www.indolink.com\/displayArticleS.php?id=112104084824\">are Rhodes Scholars this year<\/A>:<\/P>\n<P>\n<TABLE style=\"BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse\" borderColor=#9a5f4b cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=\"100%\" align=Default border=1 hspace=\"10\">\n<TR bgColor=#9a5f4b>\n<TD><FONT face=Arial color=white><STRONG>Who<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/TD>\n<TD><FONT face=Arial color=white><STRONG>School<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/TD>\n<TD><FONT face=Arial color=white><STRONG>Hometown<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/TD>\n<TD><FONT face=Arial color=white><STRONG>Major<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/TD>\n<TD><FONT face=Arial color=white><STRONG>How saving the world<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/TD><\/TR>\n<TR>\n<TD>Ian Desai<\/TD>\n<TD>Chicago<\/TD>\n<TD>Brooklyn, NY<\/TD>\n<TD>Ancient studies<\/TD>\n<TD>South Asia Watch<\/TD><\/TR>\n<TR>\n<TD>Swati Mylavarapu<\/TD>\n<TD>Harvard<\/TD>\n<TD>Gainesville, FL<\/TD>\n<TD>Human rights<\/TD>\n<TD>Nicaraguan democratization<\/TD><\/TR>\n<TR>\n<TD>Kazi Rahman<\/TD>\n<TD>Harvard<\/TD>\n<TD>Scarsdale, NY<\/TD>\n<TD>Social studies<\/TD>\n<TD>Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee<\/TD><\/TR><\/TABLE><\/P>\n<P>Mylavarapu is an ex-<A href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/debate\">debater<\/A>. Word.<\/P>\n<P>Although technology drives history (fire, metal, stirrups, guns, electricity, airplanes, computers&#8230;), technologists are usually excluded. I&#8217;m not bitter, really.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our favorite scheme by a racist diamond magnate to civilize the natives by re-educating them in jolly old England! Three desis are Rhodes Scholars this year: Who School Hometown Major How saving the world Ian Desai Chicago Brooklyn, NY &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/21\/three_new_desi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}