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From: India Abroad
Date: 20030606
Author:Roy, Sandip

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Growing up in Kolkata I thought of myself as little other than Calcuttan. Even that identity got splintered for my friends when the local football teams, East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, duked it out on the muddy maidan. We were Bengali when it came to Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore. We were Indian when it came to the cricket team. We thought of South Asian as an excuse for Indians to win lots of medals during the South Asian Federation games. And we rarely thought of ourselves as Asian.

In the United States I find I have become Asian. At least that's the box I am assigned ...

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