Anirvan Chatterjee

Lakireddy Bali Reddy, former Berkeley landlord and convicted sex trafficker, died of natural causes Nov. 8 at the age of 84.

In the early 1900s, Kala Bagai and her family were driven out of the city of Berkeley by racism, but last Tuesday, Berkeley City Council voted unanimously to name a street located in the heart of Berkeley after her.

Students from the campus group South Asians for Social Justice held a vigil and open forum Thursday night in honor of two Indian immigrant men — Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Harnish Patel — who were both murdered in the past month.

Few UC Berkeley students, however, are aware that one of the earliest on-campus demonstrations happened in 1908 outside Stiles Hall by a group of Indian students.