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.
Category : In Region
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...
Remembering Faiz
This article was originally published The News International about a SAI co-sponsored event held in Dubai on Feb. 23. By Babar Hashm February is the birth month of arguably the best Urdu poet of all time – Faiz Ahmed Faiz. He touched millions of hearts around...
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: Understanding the role of fathers in their young childrens care, health, and development
This is part of a series of reports from Harvard students who have traveled to South Asia with support from a SAI grant. By Joshua Jeong, Doctor of Science Global Health and Population 2019 Through the generous support of the South Asia Institute’s Winter session...
Student voices: Achievement gaps in state-regulated Madrasas in Bangladesh
This is part of a series of reports from Harvard students who have traveled to South Asia with support from a SAI grant. By Zayan Faiyad, Harvard College ’18 Faiyad conducted field research during winter session to identify root causes of the...
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.