Category : News
Oct 17, 2012 | News
Inclusive innovation can transform how our societies conduct business, create new ideas, and tackle pressing social, technological and environmental challenges. Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, President of the Global Research Alliance, a network of 60,000 scientists from...
Oct 4, 2012 | News
What are the key drivers of educational success for disadvantaged girls and what are the most cost effective expenditures to promote this for government? What are the infrastructural and social triggers of the girls’ success? Which public policies make the most...
Sep 28, 2012 | News, Students
On Friday, September 28, over 140 Harvard students, staff and faculty attended SAI’s welcome back chaat party! Representatives from all South Asian student groups at Harvard University were in attendance, and students learned about SAI’s upcoming events...
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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