The Future of Diplomacy Project will be hosting its second Fisher Family Fellow/Diplomat-in-Residence in October. Raja Mohan is an Indian academic, journalist and foreign policy analyst. Currently, he is the head of Strategic Studies, at the Observer Research Foundation, India.
The 4th annual short course in Nutrition Research Methods with colleagues at Tufts and St. John’s Research Institute will take place in Bangalore January 20-31, 2014. The course will introduce students to public health research topics through critical evaluation of recent scientific literature, and exploration of a variety of demographic, epidemiological, biological and social factors that affect nutritional status.
On October 4th, Abhimanyu Singh, Director and Representative UNESCO Beijing, spoke at an event as part of SAI’s Education Seminar Series and the Harvard Asia Center’s Modern Asia Seminar Series.
The South Asia Institute Retreat, held on Friday, September 27 at the Harvard Faculty Club, was an opportunity for select faculty, students and senior administrators from across Harvard, faculty from peer institutions and donors to meet and reflect on SAI’s role at Harvard and South Asia in light of its ten year anniversary, and to discuss SAI’s future direction.
The Boston Children’s Museum and the Harvard India Student Group seek volunteers to help with the Diwali Celebration at the Museum on Sunday, October 27 from 10 – 3:30 pm.
Professor Tarun Khanna hosted Professor Arndt Michael whose book, India’s Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism won the Association of Third World Studies’ Cecil B. Currey Book Award and the German-Indo Society’s Gisela Bonn Award 2013.
Tarun Khanna’s Contemporary South Asia – Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems is helping a broad cross-section of students from across the University develop an understanding of the complex social structures that make up present day South Asia.
This past weekend, South Asia Institute’s 2013 Prasad Fellowhip grant recipients gathered for a lunch along, with Mukesh Prasad and several 2012 recipients, to share stories and experiences from their time abroad.
Over 100 students, faculty, and staff gathered for SAI’s 2nd annual Chaat Party in the CGIS Concourse.
The Indian economy has been teetering on the brink for the past few months. The most manifest of these problems has been the crash of the Indian rupee, which has shown a decline of approximately 20% against the US dollar in a short period of time. Tarun Khanna, Director of the South Asia Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play.
As part of a yearlong education seminar series, Professor Lant Pritchett of the Harvard Kennedy School presented on critical issues in education policy implementation and ineffective schools, drawing heavily on his research in India.