SAI Year In Review 2014-15
View the digital version of SAI’s Year In Review publication, highlighting all of SAI’s activities for the academic year.
Category : Faculty
Highlights from South Asia Week at Kennedy School
The Future of Diplomacy Project, in partnership with SAI, launched its annual South Asia Week, beginning April 24. This year the week-long lineup included an impressive group of influential leading diplomats, journalists, and experts on South Asian affairs: Pakistani...
Research spotlight: Art and education in the South Asian context
This is the fourth and last article in a series highlighting SAI’s ongoing research projects that were featured at SAI’s Annual Symposium ‘South Asia: Local Solutions with Global Impact‘ in April. By Abhishek Raman, MDiv Candidate, Harvard Divinity School; SAI Student...
Innovation and immersion overseas
This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Grants help faculty shape study-abroad opportunities By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer New Delhi, Bangalore, Paris, Tblisi, Vienna, Dakar, Freiburg. Harvard summer students will have the option of...
Lessons from and for Nepal
On May 14, SAI hosted panel discussions featuring faculty from Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and Brown on lessons for Nepal across a broad spectrum of issues, including public health, water and sanitation, reconstruction of heritage sites, and equity in humanitarian efforts.
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Exploring identity through South Asian poetry
By Sunayana Kachroo, poet participant South Asia is a region of diversity with a peculiar synthetic cultural unity. Rich in history, languages, literature and philosophy, the region has explored the signature of humanity in man through religion, art, monuments, food,...
Ben Siegel wins Sardar Patel Award
Congrats to Ben Siegel, former SAI Graduate Student Associate, whose dissertation “Independent India of Plenty: Food, Hunger, and Nation-Building in Modern India” won the 2014 Sardar Patel Award for “the best doctoral dissertation on any aspect of modern India –...
Research spotlight: Mental health and disaster management
Global actors must work with communities to create local solutions for post-disaster mental health initiatives, according to panelists at SAI’s Annual Symposium.
India’s Prospects and Policy Challenges
By Ghazal Gulati, Ed. M Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education, @GhazalGulati On May 1, 2015, the South Asia Institute (SAI) hosted an engaging and insightful conversation with Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of...
New Asia related E-Resources at Harvard
New e-resources have been added to Databases @ Harvard Library this April: Afghanistan and the US, 1945-1963 : Records of US State Department Classified Files http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:auafghanistanusstate Afghanistan in 1919: The Third...
SAI welcomes new members to its Advisory Council
SAI is honored to announce that KP Balaraj, Sumir Chadha, and Chandni and Mukesh Prasad, are joining Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI) as the newest members of its Advisory Council.