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    339 : South Asian Diaspora Convention 2016: Linking People and Ideas

    Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury

    11 August 2016

    Most South Asian governments organise events celebrating their respective 'diaspora'. But South Asian Diaspora Convention in Singapore is the only forum that lends this resourceful segment of migrant population, now, in some parts extending to the third generation, a regional identity. This would redound to the advantage of all concerned, and should be able to weave into a garland the manifold advantages of the commonality of identity spread across the three would-be global supra-states of the world: America, Europe and the emergent Asia.