[Assam] Columbus confuses Indian Americans?

[umesh sharma]

Happy Columbus Day!!
   
  Today I tried to explain to my Indian American student (12 year old) how Columbus was finding a new world (and that Indians did not live at all in Americas before or after Columbus came to "the New World" -- he was trying to find a new route to India -and found this place by mistake -so mistakes can also lead to important discoveries -thats what we concluded)
   
  He did realize and remarked that about that time 500 years ago that Guru Nanak was founding Sikh faith and could chart Guru's route to Mecca -for Haj -then.
   
  Quite an experience.
   
  Umesh 


Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
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(Washington D.C. Metro Region)
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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