calcutta was very hot, said amy. i wondered how our conversation about asian american literature veered to calcutta? calcutta was very hot but i got my first doll there. we spent some time in calcutta when we fled to the united states. the doll didn't look like me blond hair and blue ice bought from calcutta. she comforted me when i remember the sounds of the japanese bombs that forced us to leave our home. did you have a dog? an indian doll to comfort you when you were a child? i told amy about my doll named champy and my oldest paternal uncle who resembled chinese ancestors. my uncle was an astounding musician played the violin and k helo. i would pick up shanty's head and place her ears on the door because her ears were smaller than my ears. i wanted her to listen carefully to the wonderful sound. i may have know in the way children know but my uncle's music would disappear from my life far too soon. he died when he was 40 years old. i tried to tell amy how my grand mother asked everyone why no one could bring her

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. >> our goal is that with khan academy alone, if there's a student in calcutta, maybe the internet connection, that's a gating factor but if they're there, they can get a pretty solid grounding in a lot of different subject areas especially ones that are meaningful to them that they can use to progress. but we think it can be the operating system what can happen in the classroom to really liberate what happens inside of the classroom. >> how many of them do you do yourself? >> i produced all the videos. >> charlie: that's what i thought. >> i'm the faculty. >> charlie: you are the faculty. >> my meetings are non-bureaucratic. >> charlie: that's assume you're interested in napoleon and the french revolution. how do you prepare. what's the process going from i'm curious about napoleon to this is what i have to teach you. this is your access to understand this moment in history. >> yes. once again i approach it from what my brain would like to see. like for history, i immerse myself in as much as possible. i usually read the wikipedia entry first. >> charlie: i go f the scaffold myself. i want t