Boston Children’s Museum and HISG seek volunteers for Diwali event
The Boston Children’s Museum and the Harvard India Student Group seek volunteers to help with the Diwali Celebration at the Museum on Sunday, October 27 from 10 – 3:30 pm.
Category : Community
Harvard Alum talk on flood risk reduction in the Indus Basin in Lahore
On Friday, 16 August 2013, Center for Law and Policy hosted a talk by Laila Kasuri, a recent graduate from Harvard College with a concentration in environmental sciences and engineering, titled “A Decision Support System for Flood Risk Reduction in the Indus...
Professor Eck awarded Honorary Doctorate from SOAS
On July 26, Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Divinity by the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, at its graduation ceremonies in London.
Harvard South Asia Alumni Events
The South Asia Institute has held several alumni events this summer, connecting alums with current and incoming students and faculty in Dhaka, Delhi, Karachi, and Lahore.
Alumni Event with Richard Cash in Dhaka
Dhaka, Bangladesh On July 17, SAI organized a casual dinner in Dhaka for local Harvard community with Professor Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Cash is a visiting lecturer at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at...
SAI Immersion Program
The South Asia Institute offered an Immersion Program for SAI grant recipients to get an in-depth look into organizations and NGOs in and around Delhi.
Education Reform Measures in India: Lessons from the World
On May 8, the South Asia Institute at Harvard University (SAI) and the Central Square Foundation (CSF) convened a group of high-level stakeholders for a roundtable discussion to shape and commit on the agenda for forging linkages between education reformers in the US...
Bone Marrow Drive for Nalini Ambady
The South Asian community is rallying around Nalini Ambady, a Stanford professor who previously taught at Tufts and Harvard. She has leukemia, is in need of an urgent bone marrow transplant, and, almost certainly needs a South Asian to provide the appropriate genetic...
Teaching India in the high school classroom
Educators for Teaching India welcomed high school teachers from around the country to their fifth annual conference “Democracy in India: Past, Present, Future,” on April 12. Since it’s founding five years ago, EFTI’s primary goal has been to...
SAI Winter Gathering
The South Asia Institute Winter Gathering was held on Tuesday, December 4. Performers included Harvard Bhangra and Charun Thattai, a carnatic whistler. Students and other members of the SAI community gathered to share food and celebrate the conclusion of a fantastic...
SAI Volunteers Teach About Diwali at the Boston Children’s Museum
Ten Harvard students from across the University, along with SAI Associate Director, Meena Hewett, and SAI Program Coordinator, Nora Maginn, spent Sunday, October 28 at the Boston Children’s Museum celebrating Diwali with the community. Children were invited to...
Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India
Photography by Sooni Taraporevala October 25 – December 20, 2012 Sert Gallery Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 24 Quincy Street | Cambridge | Massachusetts 02138 617.495.3251 View the complete event invitation. This exhibition is made possible by the...