Category : In Region
Oct 19, 2022 | Alumni, Announcements, In Region, India, News
For our first Alumni Spotlight, we spoke with the Founder and CEO of SaveLIFE Foundation, Piyush Tewari. His story is one of sheer resilience. Piyush turned tragedy into a relentless quest to save lives on India’s roads, which are some of the most dangerous in the world. India holds the global top spot in road crash fatalities and its crash severity of over 31–denoting the deaths per hundred crashes–is the highest amongst the top 20 countries registering the maximum number of road crashes. He also is the driving force behind the groundbreaking Good Samaritan Law that provides bystanders the safety from legal and procedural hassles in the event that they step up to help road crash victims. Piyush graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Masters in Public Administration in 2017.
Oct 12, 2022 | Announcements, Fellows, In Region, India, News
Sristhee Sethi joins the Mittal Institute as the second class of India Fellows, based at the LMSAI Delhi office. Srishtee studies borderlands and migration, with a focus on the lifeworlds of borderland communities and how ‘border management’ encompasses their...
Oct 5, 2022 | Announcements, Bangladesh, Community, In Region, India, News, Partition, Social Enterprise, South Asia in the News
Tariq Omar Ali received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard and is now an Associate Professor at Georgetown University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century South Asia and global histories of capital with a particular interest in how the material and everyday lives of ordinary men and women are shaped by transnational circulations of commodities and capital. His first book, A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta was published by Princeton University Press, 2018. He will be presenting his new research examining how decolonization, independence, and the rise of the nation-state restructured the working lives of peasants, boatmen, itinerant traders, and small businessmen in post-colonial East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) in the 1950s and 1960s at the Tufts-Harvard Conference on the 75th Anniversary of Independence and Partition, October 7-9. Prof. Ali will be speaking on Friday, October 7 at 4:30 p.m. on a panel chaired by Prof. Amartya Sen at the ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Building, Tufts University.
Oct 4, 2022 | Announcements, Fellows, News, Pakistan
Liaquat Channa, an educational linguist, joins the Mittal Institute this academic year as the new Syed Babar Ali Fellow. His research interests include language and education, hidden curriculum and language textbooks, language teacher identity, language in education policy and planning. He is a Fulbright alumnus, and completed his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education with a concentration on teaching English to speakers of other languages and World Language Education from the University of Georgia. Prior to joining the Mittal Institute, he was a Professor in the Department of English at Balochistan University of IT, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) in Quetta, Pakistan. We spoke to Liaquat about his research and what he hopes to accomplish while at the Mittal Institute.
Sep 27, 2022 | Announcements, Fellows, In Region, News, Pakistan
Khyati Tripathi, the Mittal Institute’s Jamnalal Kaniram Bajaj Trust Visiting Research Fellow, is a psychologist and anthropologist from India who tries to bring together events, emotions and practices related to death to explore the psychosocial significance...
Sep 27, 2022 | Announcements, Faculty, In Region, India, News, Pakistan, Partition, South Asia in the News
Join us for a series of in-country book talks in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in recorded human history. Seventy-five years later, the...
Sep 27, 2022 | Announcements, In Region, Nepal, News, Students
Shrinkhala Khatiwada, a Master of Urban Planning candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, earned an LMSAI student grant to study urban planning in Nepal. She spent a three-week internship at Daayitwa Nepal Public Policy Fellowship, a program that fosters collaboration on economic policy research between young professionals and the Nepalese government. During her internship, Shrinkhala worked with the Nepal National Planning Commission to explore the potential for mandating a dedicated Urban Green Infrastructure department in every major metropolitan city in Nepal.
Sep 20, 2022 | Announcements, Community, In Region, India, News
The Mittal Institute maintains a presence in countries across South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Nepal. This series of “dispatches from the region” will showcase the ways in which these outposts strengthen engagement, host visiting scholars and...
Sep 20, 2022 | Announcements, In Region, News, Pakistan, South Asia in the News
Ayesha Malik ’99 paves the way for women on Pakistan’s Supreme Court
Sep 20, 2022 | Announcements, Community, In Region, News, South Asia in the News, Sri Lanka, Students
Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka on April 13, 2022 in front of the Presidential Secretariat | By AntanO. Mittal Institute: Can you tell us about the current crisis in Sri Lanka? What are you hearing from people and organizations working on the ground?...
Sep 14, 2022 | Announcements, Community, In Region, India, News, Social Enterprise, Students
How do societies identify and promote merit? In their new book, Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present, Tarun Khanna (Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School and Director, LMSAI) and Michael Szonyi (Frank...
Sep 14, 2022 | Announcements, Associates, Community, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, News, Pakistan, South Asia in the News, Students
The torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan have eclipsed the label of a mere natural disaster; Pakistan is undergoing a humanitarian crisis. In the past two months, the heaviest rainfalls on record have killed over 1,300 people and have severely impacted 33 million others. The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) estimates that over half a million homes have been destroyed. Relief efforts are direly needed given the rapidly-worsening situation. Harvard College Pakistani Students Association is raising funds to provide victims with meals, shelter, sanitary products, and more. Please donate what you can so we can help give much-needed funds to those suffering in Pakistan and please share this far and wide so we can raise much-needed awareness for this perilous situation.