Indian PhD students on foreign student visa awarded $200,000 settlement after allegedly facing discrimination over heating traditional food with heavy unfamiliar odor in American university microwave.

Prediction going into article: “everybody can use the microwave except for that guy.”

>”Acts like stopping me from using a shared microwave because of how my food smells are how white people control your Indianness and shrink the spaces you can exist in,” Prakash told the *BBC.*

I have rented an apartment after an indian family. The smell from the spices alone from the food was so bad, paint couldnt cover it up. They add so much to taste food but get used to the amount till its bland again and then add more. I was told they professionally cleaned and repainted few times and had windows open with fans on. I declined because i just was too sensitive to strong scents.