Category : In Region
Dec 1, 2016 | In Region, News, Students
Jasmine Chia, Harvard College ’18, started her summer in Myanmar intending to study Vipassana Buddhism, but became fascinated with a different topic: a banking phenomenon that explains the links between capitalist religion and political engagement.
Dec 1, 2016 | Community, India, News
SAI is pleased to welcome Sanjay Kumar to the team as our India Country Director. He will lead all of SAI’s activities in India and will be based at our office in Delhi.
Nov 28, 2016 | Community, Fellows, India, South Asia in the News
In an article for the Indian Express, Satchit Balsari and Tarun Khanna write that the proposed National e-Health Authority could launch a digital health revolution in India, but safeguards need to be in place to protect patients’ privacy. This is in follow up to the recently held Radcliffe Advanced Seminar, “Exchanging Health Information.”
Nov 22, 2016 | Community, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, News, Students
See what the SAI community is thankful for this year.
Nov 21, 2016 | In Region, Nepal, News, South Asia in the News, Students
This is part of a series in which we share reports from Harvard students who have traveled to South Asia with support from a SAI grant. By Justin Henceroth, MDes Risk and Resilience, 2017, Harvard Graduate School of Design The SUV slowed to a crawl as we prepared to...
Nov 21, 2016 | B4 Program, Faculty, India, News
Venkatesh Murthy is Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and the the co-director of SAI’s Boston Bangalore Biosciences Beginnings Program. He was recently interviewed about his work and how he became interested in neuroscience by Current Biology. Click...
Nov 17, 2016 | In Region, India, Students
Angela Leocata, Harvard College ’18, interned at Sangath in Goa over the summer to research community-based intervention for maternal depression.
Nov 9, 2016 | In Region, India, News, Students
Shaiba Rather, Harvard College ’17, spent her summer conducting research for her senior thesis on the bans of the production and consumption of beef in India. “This topic contributes to a larger question of how identity politics are mobilized in multicultural democracies,” she writes.
Nov 8, 2016 | India
This is part a series in which we will profile organizations in India who received a Social Innovation grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. The video above is a brief onsite interview in Bhubaneswar between Dr. Shashank Shah,...
Nov 3, 2016 | Pakistan
Congratulations to Karim R. Lakhani, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, for his invitation to serve on the advisory board of Suleman Dawood School of Business, the oldest of the four schools at Lahore University of Management Sciences...
Nov 2, 2016 | India, News
This is the first in a series in which we will profile organizations in India who received a grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. The video above is a brief onsite interview in New Delhi between Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director, Harvard...
Oct 27, 2016 | Blog, In Region, News, Students
Sarani Jayawardena, Harvard College ’17, spent her summer researching how government-issued history textbooks in Sri Lanka have changed and how they depict ethnic minorities during the course of the civil war and afterward.
