India, Jan. 14 -- An Indian student at the University of Colorado Boulder and his partner have been awarded 200,000 after a staff member objected to the "smell" of Indian food being heated in a shared microwave. Aditya Prakash and Urmi Bhattacheryya claim that the episode triggered a pattern of discriminatory treatment and retaliation by the university.

In September 2025, the university agreed to pay the couple $200,000 and confer Master's degrees, while barring them from future enrolment or employment, even as it denied any liability in the matter.

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The events leading up to the $200,000 settlement started on September 5, 2023, when Aditya Prakash w...