Feb 27, 2013 | News
“Innovation is the fuel of economic growth, and the Holy Grail for companies and countries around the globe “What makes a company innovative? An individual? A country? Why is Silicon Valley still such an exceptional—and singular—example of self-propelled...
Feb 27, 2013 | News, Students
SAI GSA Namita Wahi has an article published in this month’s issue of Seminar Magazine. Access the article here.
Feb 27, 2013 | News, Students
The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations 2013 conference was held February 15-18. Carr Center Fellow Sharmila Murthy spoke on a panel that examined land and water rights in India at the Harvard HPAIR 2013 Asia Conference February 16, 2013. Also on...
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…
