Harvard Asia Quarterly
The Harvard Asia Quarterly’s fall issue focuses on South Asia. Click here to download the journal. Having trouble with the file size? Click here.
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Spurring Entrepreneurship: A Case for Inclusive Innovation in Emerging Markets
Spurring Entrepreneurship: A Case for Inclusive Innovation in Emerging Markets Lessons For Pakistan from China and India “What will your entrepreneurial claim to fame be?” – Tarun Khanna, addressing future and current entrepreneurs in Pakistan. On...
SAI Announces Pakistan Innovation Network
The Pakistan Innovation Network (PIN) will create a comprehensive and responsive ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Pakistan, which entails capacity building and coordination of stakeholders. This network includes faculty, business mentors, investors and...
Inclusive Innovation: The Emerging Game Changer
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...
The Champions Project
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...
SAI Welcome Back Chaat Party A Huge Success!
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...
Muslim Devotional Art in India
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 ...
“State, private property and the Supreme Court”
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...
Anand Patwardhan Film Screening: Jai Bhim Comrade
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.
Vikas Khanna’s Holy Kitchens Series
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...
SAI Welcomes 2012-2013 Graduate Student Associates
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...
Call for Papers!
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...