Category : News
Aug 23, 2022 | News
4 Ways to Stop India’s Slide to Ill Health By Satchit Balsari On the 75th year of India’s independence, the health of our nation does not look good. The scourge of infectious diseases has hardly waned, and non-communicable diseases like asthma, heart disease and...
Aug 22, 2022 | News
Harvard offers a wide array of courses on South Asia, ranging from language to history, politics, economics, religion, and much more. Check out the what’s on offer for Fall 2022. Please refer to the Course Catalogue for the most up-to-date information. We will...
Jun 29, 2022 | News
After spring semester’s final examinations are through, Harvard students set off to all corners of South Asia to pursue fieldwork, language study, and research projects through the Mittal Institute’s annual Summer Grants program. This year LMSAI awarded...
Jun 16, 2022 | News
It’s summer here on the Harvard campus and a great time to catch up on reading. We caught up with some of Mittal Institute faculty members and affiliates to see what’s on their reading list and to hear more about their favorite reads. We would also love to...
May 26, 2022 | Announcements, Faculty, In Region, News
The Mittal Institute was one of just 10 teams selected for Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund (CCSF) award for a new, interdisciplinary initiative focused on South Asia. The project, “Building Data Infrastructure to Understand Climate Change Migration,” will be led by Mittal Institute Faculty Director Tarun Khanna and aims to develop a transformative, open-access climate and population health data-monitoring ecosystem in South Asia. The 10 teams will share $1.3 million in funding to carry out the projects.
May 25, 2022 | Announcements, News
The Mittal Institute held its first hybrid Annual Symposium on May 18-19 with a series of panels and lectures commemorating the anniversary of the Partition of British India. The event, “75 Years of the Making of Modern South Asia,” brought to together leading...
May 25, 2022 | Announcements, Community, In Region, News
From the Hijab Ban to the Political Crisis in Pakistan, We’ve Curated 10 Not-to-be-Missed Events from the Last Year The academic year is just wrapping up here in Cambridge, and we wanted to take an opportunity to share with you a specially curated sampling of...
May 24, 2022 | Announcements, In Region, News
Syed Babar Ali, former Minister of Finance of Pakistan, businessman, philanthropist and founder of Pakistan’s leading institution of higher learning, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). “It is too early in the life of any country to celebrate its...
May 24, 2022 | Announcements, Faculty, In Region, News
Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics, among many other awards. With an introduction by Hitesh Hathi, Executive Director, Lakshmi Mittal and...
May 19, 2022 | Announcements, Faculty, News
The Mittal Institute releases its 2021 – 2022 Annual Report with updates on faculty research projects, student funding, events and more.
May 19, 2022 | Announcements, Fellows, In Region, News, Social Enterprise
The Mittal Institute wrapped up its Annual Symposium yesterday after two days of dynamic panels that touched on South Asia from myriad disciplines and lenses, including the arts, the environment, health, economics, and the next generation. The theme, “The Making of Modern South Asia,” celebrated and commemorated 75 years of independence from British India and brought together guests in person in Cambridge and virtually from countries around the globe.
May 19, 2022 | Announcements, Fellows, In Region, News, Social Enterprise
Through the Seed for Change (SFC) Program, the Mittal Institute fosters and supports the development of a healthy, vibrant ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship in both India and Pakistan. Each year, the Mittal Institute holds this competition to identify and reward interdisciplinary student projects that positively impact social, economic, and environmental issues in India and Pakistan.
