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― Tanuja Desai Hidier, quote from Born ConfusedīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, I was feeling it, too - a sense of history in the making. Making it, messily but surely, even simply by speaking. The moments that made up my life in the present tense seemed so fleetingly urgent and self-contained to me: I'd always felt my life had very little to do with my parents' and especially their parents' histories.and that it would have very little effect on anything to come.īut the way these people were talking - about desis in Hollywood South Asian Studies departments the relatively new Asian Indian slot on the census - was hummingly sculpting the air, as if they were making history as they spoke.

Everyone seemed to know about this ABCD thing - that didn't seem very confused to me! And it was a relatively new phenomenon it had never occurred to me that things going on now could have a history already. A history of a people in transit - what could that be card catalogued under? And the history of the ABCD. To be honest, I was quite intimidated by the dialogue going on, as well as by the passion and conviction of these people on so many subjects which I, frankly, had never really even thought about. This whole event so far rocked my world, muddled me still more, and delivered a series of tiny epiphanies, all at the same time. I just couldn't believe how far along the desi scene was, not just socially but intellectually, how many people were out there thinking about it. “As the conference continued it occurred to me finally that it wasn't really about Indian history as it was written, but really about rewriting it by taking a fresh look at race, ethnicity, gender, and a mix of sociocultural questions.
