South Asian Students Association

Come Join MCAB, the South Asian Students Association to celebrate Holi, the festival of colors! End the MCAB Color run at Battell Beach and get ready to play Holi with colors, water and music.

Join us to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, with an evening of poetry, traditional South Asian snacks, and chai. President Laurie Patton will read selected works from her book of poems, ‘Fire’s Goal: Poems from the Hindu Year’, which explores the experience of devotion in the Hindu tradition. Students and faculty members will also read at this event and everyone is invited to bring poetry they would like to share.

The Hindu Student Association’s annual Diwali Dinner celebrates Diwali or “festival of lights” to signify the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. Traditional Indian food and snacks will be served at the event.

Join us for conversation, chai, and snacks with Dr. Kamakshi P. Murti! For more information contact psinha@middlebury.edu Dr. Murti is a Prof. Emerita of German who retired from Middlebury College in 2009. Her areas of research and writing include Gender Studies and German Orientalism. She has written books such as- ‘To Veil or not to Veil’, which explores race, immigration, and Islam in Europe, and ‘India: The Seductive and Seduced Other of German Orientalism’, which looks at colonialism and gender. Dr. Murti also writes detective novels that combine cultural studies and archaeology.

Come join the South Asian Students Association for a delicious meal to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light

Come enjoy delicious Asian food to celebrate the spring semester! 

At our biweekly SASA meetings, students gather to discuss issues pertinent to the South Asian community and the intersection of food, language, culture, and history. All are welcome to attend!

At our biweekly SASA meetings, students gather to discuss issues pertinent to the South Asian community and the intersection of food, language, culture, and history. All are welcome to attend!

At our biweekly SASA meetings, students gather to discuss issues pertinent to the South Asian community and the intersection of food, language, culture, and history. All are welcome to attend!

At our biweekly SASA meetings, students gather to discuss issues pertinent to the South Asian community and the intersection of food, language, culture, and history. All are welcome to attend!