Oral History Interview with Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapalwas born in Chennai, India and grew up between Indonesia, Singapore, and India. Ms. Jayapal has a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. from Georgetown University in English and Economics.
Oral History Interview with Prasanna Manjula Samarawickrama
Prasanna Samarawickrama was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and spent most of his childhood and schooling in the region. While attending high school, Mr. Samarawickrama won a scholarship through the AFS to attend a year of high school in the United States. He spent a year then living and going to school at Roosevelt High School in Oregon.
Oral History Interview with Rao V. Remala
Rao Remala was born in T.Kothapelam, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, India. Dad was a village revenue worker and mom was housewife. Mr. Remala has four brother and two sisters. He finished his high school in a neighboring village walking 5 miles each way. He graduated with highest honors from REC Warangal College, India in 1972.
Oral History Interview with Syed Rizwan Nasar
Rizwan Nasar is in the marketing communications business and consults with various companies, including Microsoft. He also runs a production house that produces TV commercials, documentaries and short movies. Currently he is working on a new script to produce a movie later this year.
Interview with Rais Bhuiyan
Rais Bhuiyan is an immigrant who moved to the United States from Bangladesh in 1999 for school. On September 21st, 2001, one week after the attacks on 9/11, he was shot in the face by Mark Stroman as part of a string of shootings Stroman claimed were revenge for the 9/11 attacks. Bhuiyan was the only survivor. Stroman received the death penalty and was on Death Row for eleven years.
Interview with Boisali Biswas
Interview with fiber artist Boisali Biswas by Indrani Saha, conducted on October 23, 2012.
Interview with K.V. Rathnam
Interview with fiber artist K.V. Rathnam by Indrani Saha, conducted on December 1, 2012.
Interview with Adil Akhtar
Interview of artist Adil Akhtar by Indrani Saha, conducted September 27, 2012.
Rani Bagai on "Vaishno Das Bagai's Naturalization Certificate"
Part of a video interview of Rani Bagai conducted on June 3, 2013. In this section, Bagai describes some of the items of her grandfather Vaishno Das Bagai left behind after his suicide in 1928, including several letters to his family he had written in addition to the political suicide letter which was published in newspapers in the U.S. and India.