Complaining about food smells is a way ‘white people control your Indianness,’ student saysTwo former graduate students settled a discrimination lawsuit with the University of Colorado, Boulder recently regarding a dispute about heating up “pungent” Indian food in an anthropology department microwave. The settlement includes $200,000 and the awarding of both students’ master’s degrees, the New York Times reports. Two days later, he and four other students, including his partner, Urmi Bhattacheryya, who was also studying for a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, responded by heating Indian food in the same microwave. … Mr. Prakash later spoke about the incident in a class discussion about cultural relativism that Ms. Bhattacheryya was leading as a teaching assistant. Eventually, Prakash and Bhattacheryya allege that they “were denied credit transfers and ultimately lost their doctoral funding,” according to the NYT.