Category : India
May 9, 2013 | Community, India, News
On May 8, the South Asia Institute at Harvard University (SAI) and the Central Square Foundation (CSF) convened a group of high-level stakeholders for a roundtable discussion to shape and commit on the agenda for forging linkages between education reformers in the US...
Apr 30, 2013 | India, News
Click here to register for this event. 2:45-3:00pm Welcome and Introduction 3:00- 4:00pm Understanding the Indian Educational Landscape India’s educational system is failing its children, and the implications for economic development are...
Apr 17, 2013 | India, News
On Tuesday April 16, the Finance Minister of India, P. Chidambaram visited the Harvard campus for a set of events sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. Finance Minister Chidambaram first attended a luncheon with members...
Apr 12, 2013 | Community, India
Educators for Teaching India welcomed high school teachers from around the country to their fifth annual conference “Democracy in India: Past, Present, Future,” on April 12. Since it’s founding five years ago, EFTI’s primary goal has been to...
Apr 2, 2013 | India
The GSD Urban India project invited the community to participate of the event “KUMBH MELA: Mapping the Ephemeral City. Presentation of a work in progress”…The presentation will include the many schools and teams from Harvard University that participated in...
Mar 25, 2013 | Bangladesh, India, News, Pakistan
The India & South Asia Program at Harvard Kennedy School announces the Harvard South Asia week from April 8 to 12. Speakers include Cameron Munter, former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary to India, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior...
Mar 19, 2013 | In Region, India
The Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI), in collaboration with the Harvard Club of Chennai (HCC), hosted an interactive discussion with Harvard Kennedy School Professor Lant Pritchett on March 19th at the Taj Coromandel in Chennai. This was SAI’s...
Mar 15, 2013 | India, News
Mr. Sam Pitroda Advisor to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation was the Keynote Speaker on the first day of the Harvard India Conference 2013 held jointly at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. He was in...
Mar 8, 2013 | India, News
Where: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem When: April 19, 12:00pm-6:00pm Cost: $11 (student ticket price) On April 19, the South Asia Institute will host a student trip to historic Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum to view its exhibition “Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India...
Mar 6, 2013 | India, Students
India vs India: Local Strength or Global Growth March 9 & 10, 2013 Presented by the students of the Harvard Business School & Harvard Kennedy School For more details and to register: http://www.harvardindiaconference.com/ co-sponsored the South Asia...
Feb 25, 2013 | India, News, Students
When a 23-year old woman, accompanied by a friend with whom she had just watched the movie Life of Pi, was brutally raped and fatally assaulted by a group of five men in Delhi this past December, the resulting media frenzy and outpouring of emotion at an international...
Jan 15, 2013 | In Region, India, Students
Harvard students and faculty traveled to the 2013 Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. Click here to learn more! Follow the blog: Mapping India’s Kumbh Mela
