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Kothi

Kothi is an ambiguous South Asian term for members of certain local subcultures including either hijras, effeminate males, gay males, or males who are receptive to other males in sexual intercourse.

Movies for the ImaginAsian

Movies for the ImaginAsian is a show on the ImaginAsian television network showcasing East Asian and South Asian films.

Park Extension

Today, most of the immigrant population is made up of South Asians from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as well as Latin American and Haitian immigrants, and a dwindling population of Greeks.

Willow Cricket

Cricket Plus was launched in 2006 as a premium channel for South Asian viewers on DirecTV and this channel also debuted in Canada as ATN Cricket Plus, owned by Asian Television Network.


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1993 South Asian Association of Regional Co-operation Gold Cup

The 1993 South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation Gold Cup was the first South Asian Football Federation Cup, held in Lahore, Pakistan between 16 July 1993 and 23 July 1993.

Athletics at the South Asian Games

Athletics competitions have been held at the South Asian Games since the inaugural edition of the South Asian Federation Games in 1984 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Baavra Mann

The film was completed in 2013 and travelled to festivals in New York Indian Film Festival and DC South Asian Festival – it won the “Best Documentary” award at the latter.

Black bean

Vigna mungo, a variety of gram or lentil typically used in South Asian cuisine

Black shaheen

(Black) Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator), South Asian subspecies of Peregrine Falcon

Carla Khan

In late 2005 she was unwell, and struggled in early 2006 until she collapsed during the 2006 South Asian Games on 24 August 2006 while playing against Joshna Chinappa from India.

Caste system in India

Forrester, Duncan B., 'Christian Theology in a Hindu Context,' in South Asian Review 8, no. 4 (1975): 343–358.

Center for International Media Ethics

The fourth CIME Forum was held in Thimphu, Bhutan and fifth CIME Forum in Islamabad, Pakistan from 23 to 24 August 2013 to gather journalists from the South Asian region in a discussion on socio-economic responsibility of journalists.

Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary unit within the UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois focusing on the cultures, societies and countries of the Middle East and South Asia.

Chunni Lal

Chuni Lal Katial, a South Asian doctor and politician, who became the first UK's South Asian mayor, after being elected mayor of Finsbury in 1938.

Colin Masica

At the University of Chicago, he taught Hindi at all levels, and occasionally other South Asian languages, along with North Indian cultural history and literature, for three decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages.

Estonia–India relations

In a collaboration with Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, CCMB, Hyderabad, India, Estonian Biocentre and University of Tartu has published dozens of papers on origin and migrations of South Asian populations.

Eyes on You

Throughout the music video, Jay Sean is depicted with various British Asians (of South Asian origin).

Faraz Anwar

One of his projects is a collaboration with Imran Raza, which combines classic rock with such Eastern musical influences as "South Asian flutes and classical Sufi singing"; according to The Weekly Standard, it was President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan who brought the two together.

Haverford Fords

Haverford's current team has a heavy contingency from students of South Asian heritage, and the XI team regularly travels to Oxbridge for games.

Indian Cowboy

Indian Cowboy is a 2004 South Asian independent feature film that belongs to a growing list of independently produced films in North America by filmmakers of South Asian descent.

Iota Nu Delta

Iota Nu Delta is involved with several national non-profit organizations, forming Multi-Year Partnerships with USO United Service Organizations, AID Association for India's Development, NMDP National Marrow Donor Program, SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together), and SAMAR (South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters).

J. A. B. van Buitenen

Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen (21 May 1928 - 21 September 1979) was an Indologist at the University of Chicago where he was the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Jignas

His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with

Kishon Khan

In 2009, his score for Sadik Ahmed’s film, The Last Thakur, won a Grand Jury award for Best Music at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York.

Kusti

Pehlwani, a South Asian form of wrestling, also known as kusti or kushti

Kyon? Kis Liye?

In late 2003, federal Heritage Minister Sheila Copps and Indian High Commissioner Shashi Tripathi signed a letter of intent to create a formal relationship between Bollywood and Canada's South Asian film industry.

London Sounds Eastern

A whole host of Asian stars were featured - Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Uthup, Ravi Shankar, Pandith Amaradeva, Asian actress Jamila Massey and her husband the writer Reginald Massey, Clarence Wijewardene, Annesley Malewana, Mignonne Fernando, Nimal Mendis, The Gypsies, Desmond de Silva were some of the South Asian stars on 'London Sounds Eastern.'

Neer Shah

In 2001, he served on the jury of Film South Asia '01, the festival of South Asian documentaries, along with Firdous Azim and Shyam Benegal.

North Dumfries

The ethnic makeup of the township is 98.5% White, and 1.5% visible minorities, of which the largest groups are Black (0.4%), South Asian and Latin American (0.3% each).

Paanch Adhyay

Besides a successful six-week run in Bengal, Paanch Adhyay was selected as the Centerpiece Premiere at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York and in the New Voice in Indian Cinema section at the Mumbai Film Festival.

Pema Rinchen

Pema Rinchen is a member of the Bhutanese national team and played for the team in the South Asian Games in 2006 and 2010.

Philip Barker

M. A. R. Barker (Phillip Barker, 1929–2012), American professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies.

Rutgers University Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures

Charles Häberl, Associate Professor, Chair of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages and Literatures

SAAN

SAAN was founded in 2001 by several University of Michigan students who felt that there was great demand on campus for a content-driven conference on issues of importance to the South Asian community in America ranging from humanitarian work in South Asia to increased political participation in the United States.

Saliba

George Saliba, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York

Sant Singh Sekhon

Along with many South-Asian littérateurs of his generation (Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Buddhadev Bose), he taught English but wrote in an Indian language.

Shafique Virani

He has published extensively on topics related to Islamic history and culture, with a focus on Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Twelver and Ismaili Shiism, and Arabic, Persian, and South Asian literatures.

Sherwani

But as Dr. Tariq Rahman writes about the western style officers that "the impeccably dressed South Asian officers, both civilian and military, never wore in public till the 1970s when Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave respectability to this dress by wearing it in public.

Shyam Selvadurai

In 2004, Selvadurai edited a collection of short stories: Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers, which includes works by Salman Rushdie, Monica Ali, and Hanif Kureishi, among others.

South Asian Spelling Bee

The competition is open to any student in the between the ages of 8 and 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.

South Asian University

At the Thirteenth SAARC Summit held in Dhaka, in November 2005, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh proposed the establishment of a South Asian University to provide world-class facilities and professional faculty to students and researchers from SAARC member countries.

Stereotypes of Asians

Stereotypes of South Asians, oversimplified ethnic stereotypes of South Asian people

Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.

Tan Tai Yong

He then went off to Cambridge University, where he earned his doctorate in South Asian history in 1992, under the supervision of Anthony Low.

Vandana Vishwas

Indo-Canadian Architect-Musician Vandana Vishwas is an exponent of south Asian genre of World Music in North America.

Varadaraja V. Raman

In 2006 he was the recipient of the Raja Rao Award which recognizes writers who have made an outstanding contributions to the literature of the South Asian Diaspora.

William Bright

Bright was also known for his research on the native American languages Nahuatl, Kaqchikel, Luiseño, Ute, Wishram, and Yurok, and the South Asian languages Lushai, Kannada, Tamil, and Tulu.