Over the past few months, media outlets across the globe have captured Harvard’s project on the Kumbh. Below is a snapshot of the media coverage. The South Asia Institute at Harvard is collecting these and will keep posting them as newer arti…
By Stephanie Cheng, PharmD, MPH Candidate 2013 – Harvard School of Public Health When I found out that I was going to the Kumbh Mela to map toilets and sanitation at the Kumbh, I wouldn’t say I was exactly jumping for joy and cringed slightly a…
Questions from reporter (via Meena): Q: The HBS team has just spent time at a completely unique event. Understanding that your research is not complete, can you share any initial impressions about the research experience, especially given all of the pr…
Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, writes on the Mapping the Kumbh Mela project in the Harvard Business Review Blog: Studying India’s Maha Kumbh Mela FestivalFiled under: All, Business, Media
Mapping the Ephemeral Mega-City: An interdisciplinary research project The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious fair that occurs every 12 years at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers on the plains of northern India. The next festival will take pla…