September 8: Welcome Back Mixer
Meet SAI’s fellows and faculty, learn about funding opportunities, and get to know Harvard’s South Asia student groups.
Category : Faculty
Webinar: Working with boys and men to prevent gender based violence
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...
Contemporary Developing Countries begins
On Wednesday, August 31, the innovative SAI platform course SW47: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems began. Over 80 students, a combination of undergraduates and graduate students, “shopped” the...
Fall course: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems
This course will provide a framework (and multiple lenses) through which to think about the salient economic and social problems of the five billion people of the developing world, and to work in a team setting toward identifying entrepreneurial solutions to such problems.
Doing Good By Doing Business —Creating Emerging Markets
This short video looks at the role of business in responding to poverty, illiteracy and gender inequality in South Asia. It forms part of the on-going Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School directed by Professor Geoffrey Jones, which uses...
Fall 2016 South Asia Courses
Harvard University will offer many courses with South Asia related content in the fall 2016 semester.
Empowering girls through education
In a webinar as part of the Livelihood Creation Project, Shantha Sinha, MV Foundation, and Jacqueline Bhabha, HSPH, HLS, HKS, discussed obstacles and challenges that girls face when pursuing education.
Hindi version of Kumbh Mela book launched in Lucknow
Speakers included Shri Akhilesh Yadav, Honorable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Harvard faculty, and Kumbh administrators.
Is this Protection? Addressing Child Trafficking in India
Every year in India, thousands of children are trafficked across the country to work long hours in highly exploitative conditions. Thanks to the efforts of official agencies, a small proportion of these children are rescued and returned to their home states. However,...
Tarun Khanna speaks at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
This article was published in The Times of India on July 23, 2016. ‘Complete ecosystem needed to foster startups’ BENGALURU: Despite being the start-up hub of the country, neither has Bengaluru nor any other state been able to achieve a complete entrepreneurial...
Widener’s growing South Asia collection: “The sky is the limit”
Librarians at Harvard’s Widener Library have been working meticulously to process more than 22,000 volumes that have been acquired from Pakistan over the last 10 years.
Tarun Khanna: Humanities seem distant from startups, but they’re not
This article appeared in Forbes India. The Start-up India campaign announced amid much fanfare on January 16 this year outlined the government’s resolve to enable entrepreneurship in India. A precursor to the big announcement, however, was the submission of a report...