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Quiet by nature, Armaan Sarao prefers to be behind a camera or immersed in writing. And that’s how he spent much of his time at Northeastern.

A media and screen studies and English major, Sarao presided over the university’s student production club, NUTV, and produced an original documentary on a Dialogue of Civilizations course in the United Kingdom. For his senior thesis, he handwrote a novella on the atrocities of the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir. These achievements led him to be nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship and to be inducted into the Huntington 100, which honors outstanding undergraduates.

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