Is India’s handicraft industry in crisis?
In a SAI webinar on Dec. 3, Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School, explained why handcrafted items are losing their relevance in contemporary markets.
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The future of mobile health
A SAI webinar on Nov. 17 showed how this type of health intervention has significant potential for public health at future events, from natural disasters to refugee resettlements.
Call for Applications: Rural Livelihood in the Indian Crafts Sector – Capacity Building Program and Social Innovation Grant
The capacity building curriculum for organizations will will equip them with practical skills, tools, and knowledge that they require to maximize and deepen the impact of their work and the scale of their activities.
Updates from the field: Livelihood Creation Project begins field visits in India
SAI’s Livelihood Creation Project, supported by the Tata Trusts, is now underway in India. The SAI team visited organizations in Bangalore last week that are empowering handicrafts and handloom artisans.
Q+A with Ranjit Kandalgaonkar: Visualizing the city
Mumbai-based artist Ranjit Kandalgaonkar draws upon contemporary visual arts media, archival documentation and historical artifacts to document urban flows. He will spend next week at Harvard as the inaugural Visiting Artist in SAI’s Arts Program.
Earthquake in South Asia
The South Asia Institute is saddened to hear about the earthquake that struck South Asia earlier today. Our thoughts are with all of the people affected by the disaster.
Tata Trusts and SAI collaborate for Social and Economic Empowerment in India
The 18-month research project will focus on three key areas including rural livelihood creation; educational, social and economic empowerment of women; and science and technology-based interventions for poverty alleviation.
Who owns big data?
Big data has huge potential – it can help track diseases, make government more efficient, or allow businesses to better understand their customers. In a SAI webinar titled ‘Who owns Big Data?” on October 13, Malavika Jayaram, Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center...
The potential of mobile technology
On Sept. 21, students from SAI’s summer program on mobile technology presented their final projects on campus, which focused on using cell phones to improve education and public health in India.
Fail and pass: Why Modi must take a cue from Li’s rhetoric
This article was published in The Indian Express By Tarun Khanna, Director of the South Asia Institute, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School That India should not be afraid might seem an odd thing to say at a time when Indians are brimming with...
Winter Session Grant Deadline: October 16
SAI offers research, internship, and language study grants to Harvard graduate students and Harvard College undergraduate students for the winter session.
Tracking disease at the world’s largest religious festival
The Jana Swasthya Project is using a new mobile health surveillance system to help keep the millions of visitors healthy while they’re at the festival.