Student Voices: Buddhist art in Odisha
Sonali Dhingra spent her summer learning Odia and learning more about Buddhist art in Odisha between the seventh and eleventh century.
Category : In Region
Nepal earthquake response offers lessons for future disasters
After Nepal’s devastating earthquake in April, the international community rushed to help. Well-meaning though it was, the huge influx of helpers actually complicated relief efforts. That issue and other lessons were the focus of a symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on September 16.
From Sunset to Sunrise: The Immense Untapped Potential of India’s Crafts
This is part of a special series on the SAI/Tata Trusts Workshop on ‘Creating Livelihoods for the Indian Craft Sector’ held in January in Gandhinagar By Gayatri Divecha, Project Consultant and Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director In his keynote address,...
Alum Q+A: Saving the environment and improving women’s lives, one pad at a time
Saathi, founded by several MIT and Harvard graduates, has developed an eco-friendly sanitary pad made from local banana fiber that is fully compostable and bio-degradable. They hope it will give women more freedom in India and other developing countries.
Student voices: Reslilience in Nepal
During her summer internship in Nepal, HKS student Yoko Okura conducted stakeholder interviews with community leaders, local government officials, teachers, students, and parents to evaluate the impact of community-based and school-based disaster reduction programs.
Student voices: The politics of contemporary women’s rights in Myanmar
This is part of a recurring series in which we share reports from Harvard students who have traveled to South Asia with support from a SAI grant. By Kate Hoffman, Harvard College ’17 Kate spent part of her summer conducting research in Myanmar on her thesis...
In their own words: Why I support the arts
In a recent interview with SAI, Arts Council member Omar Saeed spoke about his intersecting interests in arts, education, and health.
Student voices: Labour and local politics in the Indian coal industry
“What my interviews and primary sources make clear is that much like the rest of India, there has been a major change in the role of the public sector,” writes Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate at HKS, who spent the summer in India researching the Indian coal industry.
Partition Project moves forward with in-region meetings
The project focuses on the humanitarian consequences experienced by those on both sides of the Punjab border.
Webinar: Working with boys and men to prevent gender based violence
By Anisha Gopi, Project Manager On July 28th 2016, the Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI) and Tata Trusts hosted the third webinar of a multi-part series on Women’s Empowerment. The webinar, titled ‘Working with Boys and Men to Prevent Gender Based...
Doing Good By Doing Business —Creating Emerging Markets
This short video looks at the role of business in responding to poverty, illiteracy and gender inequality in South Asia. It forms part of the on-going Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School directed by Professor Geoffrey Jones, which uses...
SAI in Nepal
On July 29, Meena Hewett, Executive Director of SAI, visited the monthly meeting of the Harvard Alumni Group in Nepal to learn more how SAI can engage more with the country. She began by sharing the mission of SAI, saying that SAI has been working with Harvard...