Based on seven months of research in Pakistan, visits to more than 140 Muslim charities, and conversations with hundreds of providers and beneficiaries, Professor Candland’s paper explores the intersections of private and public provision of public goods and the consequences for government legitimacy and for citizenship.
SAI will be hosting its Mahindra Lecture featuring Photographer Raghu Rai on Monday, October 28 and Tuesday, October 29. In the last 18 years, Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India. He has produced more than 18 books, including Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal, Tibet in Exile, India, and Mother Teresa. Rai was awarded the ‘Padmashree’ in 1971, one of India’s highest civilian awards ever given to a photographer. In 1992, his National Geographic cover story “Human Management of Wildlife in India” won him widespread critical acclaim for the piece.
The new issue of Harvard Asia Quarterly on “Asia’s Security Future – National Strategies and Regional Institutions” is now available for download. SAI Intern and HLS SJD Candidate, Erum Sattar is HAQ’s Editor-in-Chief this year.
Meghan is very excited to be joining the SAI team and learn more about South Asia. She will be handling SAI’s website, social media, and outreach efforts.
IDinsight is an international development consulting organization that helps policymakers and managers make socially impactful decisions using rigorous evidence. They are seeking to hire Associates to work in Uganda, Zambia, and India.
The Future of Diplomacy Project will be hosting its second Fisher Family Fellow/Diplomat-in-Residence in October. Raja Mohan is an Indian academic, journalist and foreign policy analyst. Currently, he is the head of Strategic Studies, at the Observer Research Foundation, India.
The 4th annual short course in Nutrition Research Methods with colleagues at Tufts and St. John’s Research Institute will take place in Bangalore January 20-31, 2014. The course will introduce students to public health research topics through critical evaluation of recent scientific literature, and exploration of a variety of demographic, epidemiological, biological and social factors that affect nutritional status.
On October 4th, Abhimanyu Singh, Director and Representative UNESCO Beijing, spoke at an event as part of SAI’s Education Seminar Series and the Harvard Asia Center’s Modern Asia Seminar Series.
The South Asia Institute Retreat, held on Friday, September 27 at the Harvard Faculty Club, was an opportunity for select faculty, students and senior administrators from across Harvard, faculty from peer institutions and donors to meet and reflect on SAI’s role at Harvard and South Asia in light of its ten year anniversary, and to discuss SAI’s future direction.
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.
Professor Tarun Khanna hosted Professor Arndt Michael whose book, India’s Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism won the Association of Third World Studies’ Cecil B. Currey Book Award and the German-Indo Society’s Gisela Bonn Award 2013.
Tarun Khanna’s Contemporary South Asia – Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems is helping a broad cross-section of students from across the University develop an understanding of the complex social structures that make up present day South Asia.