The Club’s Annual Dinner will feature Chief Minister Punjab, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif as the keynote speaker.
On December 9th, SAI hosted a film screening of The Good Road, which is India’s official entry for Best Foreign Film at the 2014 Oscars. SAI caught up with the director to discuss his film and the direction of Indian cinema.
Around 50 students, faculty, and friends of SAI gathered and shared delicious South Asian food and fun music.
SAI is excited to welcome Teri McGuane as Staff Assistant. Teri will be responsible for support of the Executive Director, office support, processing financial reimbursements, event logistics, and travel arrangements for the organization.
Organized by the Harvard Club of Chennai and the HBS Club of India, the event was attended by 20 graduates from across the different schools at Harvard.
On November 25, 2013, SAI hosted a webinar titled “Tackling Gender Based Violence in South Asia – What Options Do We Have?” as part of SAI’s ongoing webinar series. The interactive discussion featured sites across Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. To make the webinar interactive across the globe, SAI utilized social media to take questions and monitor the discussion online.
On November 21, SAI hosted a roundtable meeting to convene experts on water issues from the Boston area. With an issue as complex as water, SAI hopes to coordinate future conferences and workshops to identify a common intellectual language about water issues and harness the resources of these experts.
Happy Thanksgiving from the Harvard South Asia Institute.
SAI has awarded 16 grants to support undergraduate and graduate projects over the Winter Session in January, 2014. Click here to see the projects.
SAI is pleased to announce that Dr. Muhammad Zahir has been selected as the inaugural Aman Fellow for spring semester 2014.
Congratulations to Paolo Singer HC ’14, who was named a Rhodes Scholar and will study at Oxford University next fall. Paolo is a two-time recipient of SAI grants.