https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1145.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1145.html 2009-02-11T03:28:51Z text/html en N V K Murthy <p>As I watched Barack Obama being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, my mind went back to the fall of 1956. I was then in Bloomington Indiana; as a graduate student there, I had taken up lodging in an approved house just across the road from the campus. My landlady was a White American widow. One day a classmate of mine, who happened to be a Black American, came home with me after class and spent some time with me in my room before we went out again. When I came (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique94.html" rel="directory">February 2009</a>