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Center for Law and Policy (CLP) hosted the first conference of Global Trends in Legal Education (GTLE), titled “Clinical and Experiential Learning,” on 11 August 2012 at Pearl Continental Hotel, Lahore. The conference was designed to analyze the goals of clinical and...
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Harvard’s Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Michael Witzel and Students Attend 3000 Year Old Atiratra Agnicayana Ritual in Kerala

Last ritual was performed in 1975 In 2011, SAI awarded a grant to Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Michael Witzel, who traveled to Kerala with students to study an ancient and extremely rare ritual. To read the full report, click...
World Bank New Delhi Summer Series
Should the Right to Property Return? Namita Wahi, Harvard Law School and Center for Policy Research spoke on Friday, August 17 at the World Bank Office in New Delhi. She examined the checkered history of the constitutional property rights provision in order to provide...
Harvard Student Interns in Mumbai Share Experiences
SAI Founder’s Club Members Paresh Patel, CEO of Sandstone Capital and his wife Nirva Patel hosted a lunch for SAI student grantees in Mumbai at the Taj Wellington Mews. Read below for more information on the students. Rahim Mawji Rahim is a rising sophomore...
Harvard University Muslim Alumni Event in Lahore
Harvard University Muslim Alumni (HUMA) hosted an event on August 4, 2012 in Lahore, in order to provide a networking opportunity to Harvard alumni in the city. Despite a storm, alumni of Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and Harvard...
BRAC and SAI Form Partnership
To further its presence in Bangladesh, Harvard’s South Asia Initiative is working with BRAC, a Bangladeshi organization recognized as a leader the world efforts to alleviate poverty. BRAC provides SAI with information from the frontlines, keeping it up-to-date...
Best of Harvard in India Series on Accountability and Governance
Transparency, Awareness, and Action: Understanding the Landscape of Accountability in India. Accountability is the heartbeat of good governance. SAI, in collaboration with the Harvard Business School India Research Centre (HBS IRC), has created a “Best of...
SAI in Pakistan Safarnama (July 2012)
In July 2012, SAI Associate Director Meena Hewett traveled to Pakistan to meet with current and new SAI affiliates and partner organizations. A safarnama refers to travel literature written during the 11th century by Nasir Khusraw: known as the Book of Travels, the...
AMAN Foundation Partners with Harvard University, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan, and Tameer MicroFinance Bank Ltd. to Strengthen Financial Investment in Education

Karachi–The Aman Foundation,SAI, the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) and Tameer Micro Finance Bank Ltd. presented their latest collaborative project which will facilitate low cost, quality education for the rural poor of Pakistan. The event was attended by several experts from the community and about a hundred people in total.
Health in South Asia: Lessons For and From the World
On April 26-27, SAI brought together global experts with deep research, implementation and policy experience to learn and find new modes for global exchange. Read more about the symposium and the abstracts submitted for this symposium: Visit the Site
Harvard Alumni Meet in Dhaka, March 2012
In early March, members of Dhaka’s Harvard community met at the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka. Shazzad Hoshen Khan, an emerging Bengali artist, was present to discuss his work on exhibition. Attendants included Ms. Ferdous Begum, former Director General for Bangladesh...