Inaugural Harvard B4 Fellowship Opens New Doors for Postdocs
The B4 Fellows explain how this program has helped their careers and research.
Category : India
Looking Back, Informing the Future: The 1947 Partition of British India
At the SAI, we have embarked on a major research project to understand the history, context and continuing impact of Partition, as its 70th anniversary approaches. Our Director, Tarun Khanna, looks ahead to new research.
President of India honors Harvard Research Fellow
Dr Satchit Balsari received a prestigious Dr BC Roy National Award from Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, at a ceremony in New Delhi earlier this month. He was honored for outstanding services in the field of sociomedical relief.
Building Budding Brain Biologists: Harvard’s inaugural B4 Program in India
Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology’s professor Venkatesh Murthy and Advisor/Preceptor Laura Magnotti reflect on the B4 Program.
Student voices: Learning How to Navigate Big City Labor Markets in Small-Town India
This is part of a series of reports from Harvard students who have traveled to South Asia with support from a SAI grant. By Kunal Mangal, PhD Public Policy, 2021, HKS I had two main goals for this visit. The first was to develop and pilot a survey on career awareness,...
Mar. 20 – 31: Visiting Artists at Harvard
SAI is pleased to announce our Visiting Artists for the Spring semester, who will be at Harvard from March 20 – 31. During their time at Harvard, the artists will display their work on campus, meet with students, attend courses, and give a public seminar. Check back...
Mentoring of entrepreneurs is missing in India: Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School
This interview with SAI Director Tarun Khanna was published in The Times of India. The entrepreneurship ecosystem in India needs to evolve beyond ecommerce and mcommerce and into areas such as education and healthcare, said Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor...
HBS Creating Emerging Markets and India Research Center host inaugural conference in Mumbai
The Harvard Business School Creating Emerging Markets project (CEM), in collaboration with the HBS India Research Center (IRC), hosted a two-day conference titled, “Creating Emerging Markets: Lessons from History” on February 13-14 in Mumbai.
Livelihood Creation Profile: Kumaun Grameen Udyog
This is part a series of organizations in India who received a Social Innovation grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. ORGANIZATION DETAILS Organisation Name: Kumaun Grameen Udyog (KGU) Registered As: Section 8 company Year...
Report: Exchanging Health Information
The new report is based on the ‘Exchanging Health Information’ seminar held at the Radcliffe Institute in 2016.
Student voices: Tiger reserves and nature preserves
During winter session, Mei Yin Wu, Harvard College ’17, interned at Wildlife Conservation Trust in Mumbai, which currently works with over 110 national parks and sanctuaries in India, covering tiger reserves and nature preserves.
Looking back, informing the future: Reflections on Partition
On Feb. 3, SAI hosted a discussion forum in Delhi to facilitate a personalized dialogue about Partition. Professor Uma Chakravarti, who moderated the discussion, showed how these stories connect to the present and inform our understanding of history, nation, community, and religion.