Category : News
Sep 27, 2012 | News
Muslim Societies in South Asia Seminar Series: Muslim Devotional Art in India Sept. 27, 2012 – Yousuf Saeed, independent scholar and filmmaker discussed his research in Muslim Devotional Art in India at a seminar co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative and ...
Sep 20, 2012 | India, News
SAI Graduate Student and SJD candidate at Harvard Law School Associate Namita Wahi’s article on reinstatement of the right to property in the Indian Constitution was published in the magazine Frontline. In the article, Wahi argues that the right to property will...
Sep 18, 2012 | News
The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard is screening Jai Bhim Comrade on Friday, October 5 beginning at 4 PM, which includes a discussion with filmmaker Anand Patwardhan. Click here to read more about the film and filmmaker.
Sep 17, 2012 | News
True Business, a film about the Sikh culture of generosity and sharing through the tradition of their community kitchens asks us: what is the connection between food, faith and service? The Golden Temple of Amritsar, holiest shrine of the Sikh religion, serves a...
Sep 14, 2012 | Graduate Student Associates, News, Students
On Friday, September 14, SAI held a welcome meeting for the six Graduate Student Advisors: Mariam Chughtai, Bridget Hanna, Bilal Malik, Benjamin Siegel, Anand Vaidya and Namita Wahi. Parimal Patil Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Chair of the Department of...
Sep 11, 2012 | News
Conference on the Economic Aspects of Population Aging in China and India The Program on the Global Demography of Aging, the South Asia Initiative, the Asia Center, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard China Fund, and the Weatherhead Center for International...
Sep 4, 2012 | News
Urbanization and Global Health Seminar Series: Students and faculty from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Graduate School of Design (GSD) came together to address a common issue in slum dwelling—the scarcity and poor conditions of public toilets in urban...
Aug 28, 2012 | News
SAI and the Harvard Film Archive are pleased to bring the Raj Kapoor Film Festival to Harvard from Friday, September 7 through Sunday, September 16, 2012. As a director, producer and star, Raj Kapoor (1924-88) became one of India’s leading filmmakers during the...
Aug 24, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region, India, News, Pakistan
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Aug 20, 2012 | News
Diana Eck Writes In Response to Tragedy in Wisconsin SAI steering committee member Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, FAS and Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS published an editorial in the Dallas Morning News in response to the...
Aug 19, 2012 | In Region, India, News
Last ritual was performed in 1975 In 2011, SAI awarded a grant to Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Michael Witzel, who traveled to Kerala with students to study an ancient and extremely rare ritual. To read the full report, click...
Aug 17, 2012 | India, News
Should the Right to Property Return? Namita Wahi, Harvard Law School and Center for Policy Research spoke on Friday, August 17 at the World Bank Office in New Delhi. She examined the checkered history of the constitutional property rights provision in order to provide...
