Dilip Ratha of the World Bank to be SAI’s inaugural Senior Visiting Fellow
As a Senior Visiting Fellow, Dilip will focus on how migration, remittances, and diaspora investments can be harnessed for the development of nations.
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Update from the Harvard Alumni Group of Nepal
On March 10, the Harvard Alumni Group of Nepal held a talk in Kathmandu with Dr. Swarnim Wagle, HKS alum and Member of the National Planning Commission of Nepal.
Interpreting secularism in India
By Abhishek Rahman, MDiv Candidate, Harvard Divinity School; SAI Student Coordinator The context in which the conversations on secularism have been happening for the past twenty years in India are crucial to understanding what it means to live in a democratic,...
April 2: Mumbai Mari Jaan at the GSD
The series at the GSD will feature Parinda, Black Friday, Lunchbox, and Mumbai Mari Jaan.
Webinar: Planning for disasters
SAI concluded its three-part webinar series on Disaster Management and Emergency Response on Tuesday, March 10 with a presentation by Payal Modi, MD, MPH, Fellow, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Harvard Medical School,...
Q+A with Asma Jahangir
In an interview with SAI, Jahangir discusses women’s empowerment, freedom of expression, and Pakistan’s complicated political relationships with India and the US. Jahangir delivered the Asia Center’s Tsai Lecture on Mar. 4
Highlights from the India Conference at Harvard
The conference hosted over 100 speakers and more than 600 guests. The theme of the conference, India’s Path to Global Leadership, included panels that covered a range of topics from healthcare to education to investing and finance.
Pakistan from crisis to crisis
By Mehjabeen Zameer, M.Ed Candidate in International Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education; SAI Student Coordinator On Wednesday, March 4, renowned Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir, spoke about the state of Pakistan moving from one crisis...
Mar. 13: Understanding the Changing Indian Voter with Milan Vaishnav
A lecture at Harvard by Milan Vaishnav, associate in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as part of the South Asian Politics seminar series
A literary colossus
The Murty Classical Library of India hopes to introduce a vast corpus of literature, thought, and science to fresh audiences across the world. “It’s completely transformative,” said Parimal Patil, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies and SAI Steering Committee member.
Q+A: Cultivating peace in Afghanistan with saffron
“We are leveraging the power of the American consumer economy to increase stability in Afghanistan,” says Keith Alaniz, a US Army veteran, who co-founded Rumi Spice with several HBS alums.
Podcast: Decolonization in Nagaland and South West Africa
SAI GSA Lydia Walker, PhD Candidate, Department of History, talks about her dissertation, a connective project that looks at decolonization in the early 1960s.