Category : Community
Oct 5, 2016 | Community, Fellows, In Region, India
This is part of a series about the SAI/Tata Trusts workshop on Creating Livelihoods for the Indian Craft Sector By Gayatri Divecha, Project Consultant and Dr. Shashank Shah, Project Director This informative panel discussion on brought together perspectives...
Sep 27, 2016 | Community, Faculty, Nepal, Students
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.
Sep 26, 2016 | Community, India
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,...
Sep 22, 2016 | Alumni, Blog, Community, India, News
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.
Sep 21, 2016 | Community, Nepal, News, Students
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.
Sep 14, 2016 | Community, Graduate Student Associates, News, Students
Every year, SAI supports Graduate Student Associates from across the different schools at Harvard whose research focuses on South Asia.
Sep 8, 2016 | Alumni, Arts Program, Community, Pakistan
In a recent interview with SAI, Arts Council member Omar Saeed spoke about his intersecting interests in arts, education, and health.
Sep 8, 2016 | Community, India, Students
“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.
Sep 1, 2016 | Community, Faculty, Fellows, News, Students
Meet SAI’s fellows and faculty, learn about funding opportunities, and get to know Harvard’s South Asia student groups.
Aug 31, 2016 | Community, Faculty, India, News
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...
Aug 18, 2016 | Alumni, Community, 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...
Aug 18, 2016 | Community, Faculty, News, Students
Harvard University will offer many courses with South Asia related content in the fall 2016 semester.
