Feb 25, 2013 | India, News, Students
When a 23-year old woman, accompanied by a friend with whom she had just watched the movie Life of Pi, was brutally raped and fatally assaulted by a group of five men in Delhi this past December, the resulting media frenzy and outpouring of emotion at an international...
Feb 25, 2013 | News, Pakistan
Pakistan relies on the largest contiguous irrigation system in the world, namely the Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS) for basic food security and supply of water for all sectors of the economy. The IBIS is thus the backbone of the country’s economy. The...
Feb 20, 2013 | News, Pakistan
Her Excellency Sherry Rehman, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, joined Meghan O’Sullivan, Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Professor of Practice, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for a public address at the...
Feb 16, 2013 | News
* With apologies to Prof Eck 🙂 This blog marks the final series of posts from the FXB Center Public Health team. It explains in some detail how the disease surveillance project was implemented and focuses on our local team composition. Subsequent post…
Feb 11, 2013 | News
In April began the planning of the Kumbh Nagri. In October they secured its space and laid down roads in November. InDecember they marked the plots and allocated land. Come January Kumbh Nagri turned into a mega city of tents, tin, and plywood: resplen…
Feb 11, 2013 | News
It’s 1:30am and we are now in Benaras. We delayed our morning departure to spend another day at the Kumbh. Mauni Amavasya was not the uneventful day the organizers had hoped it would be. Officials say that 30 million people (one and a half times Bo…
Feb 11, 2013 | News
Ron Gutman, founder and CEO of HealthTap, joined Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of SAI, David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics, Harvard School of Public Health, and students from across Harvard and...
Feb 10, 2013 | News
NY Times Blog on HSPH Project Can Big Data From Epic Indian Pilgrimage Help Save Lives? Big data, meet humanity. The South Asia Institute at Harvard has sent a team of public health specialists to one of the largest gatherings in the world, the Kumbh M…
Feb 9, 2013 | News
February 9, 2013: The crowds in the Kumbh Nagri have swollen to fill the sandy Gangetic floodplain as the largest bathing day begins tomorrow. Today the roads brimmed with pilgrims on their way to and from the Sangam; the barricades rolled to block all…
Feb 8, 2013 | News
(I drafted these comments in response to a query from Times of India directed through Meena). Questions 1) Purpose of the “Mapping the Kumbh Mela”- South Asia Institute 2) Could you elaborate on the focus of the project? – Faculty member at the S…
Feb 8, 2013 | News
Country experts tend to imagine that their areas of interest are uniquely and distinctly of special scholarly interest. Pakistan, according to Aqil Shah (former Rhodes Scholar and currently a Junior Fellow with Harvard University’s prestigious Society of Fellows)...
