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South Asia In The News: India’s Cash Crisis
SAI and Harvard affiliates react to India’s decision to withdraw the legal status of certain cash notes.
SAI welcomes Sanjay Kumar, India Country Director
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.
A change called NeHA
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.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
See what the SAI community is thankful for this year.
Nov. 29 – Dec. 9: Visiting Artists at Harvard
During their time at Harvard, the artists will display their work on campus, meet with students, attend courses, and give a public seminar.
[Video] DeCoding Asia: Mediating the Megalopolis
In this video, architecture historian and critic Kenneth Frampton talks about the processes of urbanization. He advocates for landscape architecture and the megaform as tools for mediating the rise of today’s megalopolis.
A peek at Harvard Art Museums’ South Asia collection
Rachel Parikh (@rachel.parikh), the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow of South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums took over SAI’s Instagram account (@HarvardSAI) to highlight some of the museum’s amazing South Asian Art collection.
Nov. 7 – 11: Go Inside the Harvard Art Museums with SAI
Rachel Parikh, the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow of South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums, will be posting from Nov. 7 – 11 will be posting some highlights from the Museum’s extensive collection.
Call For Proposals: Workshop on Animal Agriculture from the Middle East to Asia, May 11-12, 2017
The workshop will bring together experts to exchange ideas as an initial step toward the goal of a broader collaborative research project.
Mukti Khaire appointed first Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell University
Shafiqul Islam wins Water Prize
Islam is the director of the Boston Water Group, a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who but work around the world to address problems that involve water.