Category : News
Oct 11, 2023 | Fellows, In Region
The conference was well attended both in-person and on Zoom and had an extremely engaged and interested audience. Each session had a Q&A session with both onsite and online participants engaged in discussion.
Oct 3, 2023 | India, News, Students
This past December, Alvira Tyagi ’25 set off for Bengaluru, India for three weeks of service in the public healthcare sector. She was awarded a Mittal Institute student grant to intern at the non-profit organization, Society for Community Health Awareness,...
Oct 3, 2023 | Community, News, Students
Harvard President Claudine Gay with members of the Bhangra dance team. The inauguration of Harvard’s 30th president, Claudine Gay, was a time to of celebration, marked by invocations, musical dedications, and greetings from students, faculty, staff and alumni....
Oct 3, 2023 | Announcements, Faculty, News
Mittal Institute Faculty Research Grants 2024-25 Announcement Date: October 2, 2023 Submission Deadline: November 15, 2023 Program Details The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute supports faculty research projects with grants. Faculty members at Harvard are...
Sep 27, 2023 | Fellows, News
On October 5 and 6, the Mittal Institute will host the “South Asia in Translation: Geography, Memory, and Textuality” conference, in collaboration with the National Translation Mission, CIIL, Mysore, Ministry of Education, Govt of India, which will...
Sep 19, 2023 | Announcements, Arts Program, Community, News
The Mittal Institute welcomed two new Visiting Artist Fellows, Cop Shiva and Garima Gupta, to campus for the start of their eight-week research fellowship at Harvard. The program allows mid-career visual artists from around South Asia to spend eight weeks on the Harvard campus. The VAF differs from a typical artist residency program in that it is research-centered, providing artists with the vast resources of Harvard’s intellectual community to enhance their artistic practice.
Cop and Garima share more about their artistic motivations below. And save the date to join them at the Mittal Institute’s Visiting Artist Fellows Art Exhibition on Tuesday, October 10, where they will share more of their work with our community.
Sep 19, 2023 | Announcements, Community, In Region, India, News
The Mittal Institute’s New Delhi office, located in the heart of the city, has been a constant hub of activity in the region. This summer brought a flurry of visitors and events to the space. Below are some highlights of summer 2023. Hybrid Session: Mega...
Sep 19, 2023 | Announcements, Community, Fellows, News
Pradeep Kumar Choudhury, the Mittal Institute’s new Jamnalal Kaniram Bajaj Trust Visiting Research Fellow, has been working as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University,...
Sep 14, 2023 | News
In the wake of India’s G20 presidency, Sunita Nadhamuni believes there is a major opportunity, an “openness” toward technology in government programs, particularly health, that could pave the way for major transformations. Ahead of her panel discussion on “Building...
Sep 6, 2023 | Arts Program, News, South Asia in the News
The “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE” exhibit tells the story of early Buddhist art through 125 objects dating from 200 BCE to 400 CE. Conceptualized by John Guy, Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia in The Met’s Department of Asian Art, the exhibit was a complex logistical exercise, with major loans—of which many are loaned for the first time—from India, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. We spoke with John Guy about the exhibit, and what it took to bring it to the public.
Sep 5, 2023 | Graduate Student Associates, News, Students
New fellows and GSAs, clockwise from top left: Anu Antony, Pradeep Choudhury, Sarthak Agarwal, Ronak Jain, Hansong Li, Vaishnavi Patil, Akhil Thomas, Tyler Richard, Pariroo Rattan, Kartik Srivastava, Gauri Jain, Hilton Simmet, Palak Gupta, Priya Sarma, Priyanka Sethy,...
Aug 30, 2023 | India, News, South Asia in the News
Business professor, South Asia specialist explains how relatively poor India with underfunded R&D became 1st to land rover on unexplored part of moon By Clea Simon Harvard Correspondentfor the Harvard Gazette It was a ground-breaking achievement on several levels....
