2017 Winter Grant Recipients
SAI has awarded grants to 15 students who will travel to India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Pakistan for research and internships.
Category : India
SAI hosts artists Komal Shahid Khan and Meenakshi Sengupta
Komal Shahid Khan, from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Meenakshi Sengupta, from Kolkata, India, attended classes, met with students and faculty, and displayed their work on campus. They also collaborated on an interactive performance piece about the Partition of India.
Livelihood Creation Profile: Women Weave
This is part a series in which we will profile organizations in India who received a Social Innovation grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. ORGANIZATION DETAILS Organisation Name: WomenWeave Charitable Trust Registered As:...
SAI welcomes Sanjay Kumar, India Country Director
SAI is pleased to welcome Sanjay Kumar to the team as our India Country Director. He will lead all of SAI’s activities in India and will be based at our office in Delhi.
A change called NeHA
In an article for the Indian Express, Satchit Balsari and Tarun Khanna write that the proposed National e-Health Authority could launch a digital health revolution in India, but safeguards need to be in place to protect patients’ privacy. This is in follow up to the recently held Radcliffe Advanced Seminar, “Exchanging Health Information.”
Q+A with Venki Murthy: The excitement of neuroscience
Venkatesh Murthy is Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and the the co-director of SAI’s Boston Bangalore Biosciences Beginnings Program. He was recently interviewed about his work and how he became interested in neuroscience by Current Biology. Click...
Student Voices: Women and mental illness
Angela Leocata, Harvard College ’18, interned at Sangath in Goa over the summer to research community-based intervention for maternal depression.
Student voices: Beef bans in India
Shaiba Rather, Harvard College ’17, spent her summer conducting research for her senior thesis on the bans of the production and consumption of beef in India. “This topic contributes to a larger question of how identity politics are mobilized in multicultural democracies,” she writes.
Livelihood Creation Profile: Prantae Solutions
This is part a series in which we will profile organizations in India who received a Social Innovation grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. The video above is a brief onsite interview in Bhubaneswar between Dr. Shashank Shah,...
Livelihood Creation Profile: Smart Joules
This is the first in a series in which we will profile organizations in India who received a grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. The video above is a brief onsite interview in New Delhi between Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director, Harvard...
Leveraging Online Platforms Effectively for Indian Crafts
This is part of a series about the SAI/Tata Trusts workshop on Creating Livelihoods for the Indian Craft Sector. By Gayatri Divecha, Project Consultant and Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director Nearly all of the 400 organizations that applied for the Tata Trust-Harvard...
Best Practices to Bolster Sales in the Indian Crafts Sector
This is part of a series about the SAI/Tata Trusts workshop on Creating Livelihoods for the Indian Craft Sector By Gayatri Divecha, Project Consultant and Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director Aditi Aman Shah, Rare Earth Design and Meeta Sandeep, Either/Or, shared their...