--- title: Kashish Bastola | TIME description: Bastola is a rising sophomore at Harvard College and is a Board Member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, Harvard South Asian Association, and Harvard CIVICS (program of the Phillips Brooks House Association), amici organizations in the S.F.F.A. v. Harvard case. He also leads the college’s Nepali Student Association canonical: https://time.com/author/kashish-bastola/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/kashish-bastola/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kashish Bastola ## Kashish Bastola Bastola is a rising sophomore at Harvard College and is a Board Member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, Harvard South Asian Association, and Harvard CIVICS (program of the Phillips Brooks House Association), [amici organizations](https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-07-22-FINAL-Harvard-Student-Alum-Orgs-Amicus-Brief.pdf) in the S.F.F.A. v. Harvard case. He also leads the college’s Nepali Student Association ## Kashish Bastola *  Jul 18, 2023 ### [Harvard's Diversity Problem Goes Deeper than Race](https://time.com/6295329/harvard-diversity-problem-class-essay/) Harvard’s multi-racial aristocracy is still an aristocracy, writes Kashish Bastola. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kashish-bastola/","name":"Kashish Bastola"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kashish-bastola/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kashish-bastola/"},"name":"Kashish Bastola","jobTitle":null,"description":"Bastola is a rising sophomore at Harvard College and is a Board Member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, Harvard South Asian Association, and Harvard CIVICS (program of the Phillips Brooks House Association), amici organizations in the S.F.F.A. v. Harvard case. He also leads the college’s Nepali Student Association","url":"https://time.com/author/kashish-bastola/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```