they are subject to other indignities, and all because of the colour of their skin.When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the US in 1955, it became the spark that lit the antisegregation movement. But for an African or African-American in India, something as innocuous as getting on a bus can still come with its own challenges.“People feel uncomfortable when you enter a bus,” says Timothy. Just the other day, the seat next to him on a Volvo low-floor bus returning from the Bengaluru airport was left empty, though passengers kept entering, till he told the person standing nearby to take a seat.Faith John, studying for her degree at Symbiosis University in Pune, says she avoids taking busesInternational Students Council.“At the FRO, they were treating us like criminals, as if we were a big problem for them to solve. I told the minister this, and that the process should take just one or two days, and not a month,” says Kuany.The minister had been taken aback but promised to take action and, to his credit, Kuany got a call from him in two weeks. “I was impressed with the home minister. He said he was sending a circular to all the FROs and it is true, things have got better,” says the Masters student from South Sudan.Kuany, who came to India in 2011 and started off at a “local college” before joining Symbiosis, says he has chosen to try and understand why he was being