Category : India
Student Coordinators, 2016-2017
The students, all master’s candidates at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, hail from India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Winter Session Grant Deadline: October 15
SAI offers grants for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students to be used during the winter session, January 2017.
Student Voices: Buddhist art in Odisha
Sonali Dhingra spent her summer learning Odia and learning more about Buddhist art in Odisha between the seventh and eleventh century.
From Sunset to Sunrise: The Immense Untapped Potential of India’s Crafts
Alum Q+A: Saving the environment and improving women’s lives, one pad at a time
Saathi, founded by several MIT and Harvard graduates, has developed an eco-friendly sanitary pad made from local banana fiber that is fully compostable and bio-degradable. They hope it will give women more freedom in India and other developing countries.
Student voices: Labour and local politics in the Indian coal industry
“What my interviews and primary sources make clear is that much like the rest of India, there has been a major change in the role of the public sector,” writes Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate at HKS, who spent the summer in India researching the Indian coal industry.
Partition Project moves forward with in-region meetings
The project focuses on the humanitarian consequences experienced by those on both sides of the Punjab border.
Webinar: Working with boys and men to prevent gender based violence
Doing Good By Doing Business —Creating Emerging Markets
Empowering girls through education
In a webinar as part of the Livelihood Creation Project, Shantha Sinha, MV Foundation, and Jacqueline Bhabha, HSPH, HLS, HKS, discussed obstacles and challenges that girls face when pursuing education.
Hindi version of Kumbh Mela book launched in Lucknow
Speakers included Shri Akhilesh Yadav, Honorable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Harvard faculty, and Kumbh administrators.