Middlebury College's spring 2010 symposium "De-Romanticizing India" attempted to answer the question of what really lies behind the common perceptions of India. Perceptions like; "Bollywood, curry, the Taj Mahal, Kama Sutra, snakes, elephants and pleny of folklore...the stereotypical Indian being a brown-skinned, God-fearing, curry-eating computer genius with 100 cousins and a pronounced Indian accent." On March 5th Gund Fellow Saleem Ali was part of a panel on "Domestic Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India." This panel met to share ideas surrounding some political complexities in India. One such challenge that Dr. Ali mentioned was "the need for India to adopt a more environmentally friendly road to development. He pointed out that India was ranked #123 (one spot behind China) on the environmental index designed by Columbia and Yale universities." Read the full document for a more complete picture of the Symposium.