Category : News
Jan 31, 2023 | Announcements, Community, Fellows, In Region, India, News
The Mittal Institute offers funding opportunities for scholars and practitioners to engage with the university’s vast resources to advance self-driven, independent research. Annie Rachel Royson joins the Mittal Institute as the second class of India Fellows, based at the LMSAI Delhi office.
During the fellowship, Annie aims to explore key works of translation from colonial South Asia to explore the critical relationship between translation, geography, sacredness, and memory. Annie’s research project will provide a South Asian perspective to the current ‘spatial turn’ in translation studies and will explore the links between translation, landscapes, and memory in the context of colonialism in the region.
Jan 31, 2023 | Announcements, In Region, India, News, Students
Arshaya Sood, a Master’s student in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, spent her summer in Mumbai, India, conducting fieldwork in the Urban Development department at the World Resources Institute Mumbai. Her work, part of an LMSAI student grant, explored urban planning and urban development efforts on the Mumbai Climate Action Plans Urban Greening & Biodiversity action track, under Cities4Forests initiative. The program works with the city and state governments and the community to improve greening efforts within underserved areas of Mumbai. Arshaya shared her experience in the Q&A below.
Jan 24, 2023 | Announcements, Community, India, News, Social Enterprise, South Asia in the News
Electric Rehi, or e-Rehri for short, is a 2022 Seed for Change grant recipient that is working towards providing affordable, electric and modular carts for street vendors in Indian cities, making the daily delivery of fresh produce efficient for both the vendors and the consumers alike. Electric vehicle technology is retrofitted to traditional Indian street carts, creating an incremental and affordable transition to green energy. Using this method, any existing cart can be transformed into an electric vehicle while retaining its ability to function as a mechanical tricycle cart.
Jan 24, 2023 | Announcements, Arts Program, Community, Fellows, India, News
The Mittal Institute presents its Spring Fellows and Visiting Artist Fellows.
Jan 24, 2023 | Announcements, Community, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, India, News
The Mittal Institute’s New Delhi Office was a beehive of activity over winter break, playing host to two separate major events: an interdisciplinary conference on indigeneity and a celebration of LMSAI’s past year and new focus on climate change.
Jan 8, 2023 | Faculty, In Region, News
Over Winter Break, some of our LMSAI faculty set off for teaching, collaboration and learning experiences in South Asia. They kept in touch with the Mittal Institute during their travels, and sent us photos of their time abroad. We curated some of our favorites,...
Jan 8, 2023 | In Region, India, News
On Tuesday, January 17 the Mittal Institute will host the “Interrogating the Indigenous in Northeast India: Political Movements, Cultural Poetics, and the Performative Capital” conference, which will trace “indigenous” as a historical category, investigating the ways in which the indigenous question has become a shared language of social critique in Northeast India. The conference will begin with a keynote lecture on “Indigeneity and Contemporary Northeast India: History and its Contingencies” by Professor Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. We spoke with conference convener Ankur Tamuli Phukan, Mittal Institute India Fellow based in our Delhi office. He shared the motivations behind the conference, and what he hopes attendees can glean from the panel discussions.
Jan 8, 2023 | In Region, India, News
Komal Shahid Khan, based in Islamabad, Pakistan, was a Visiting Artist Fellow at the Mittal Institute in 2016. She received a master’s in fine arts from the Fatima Jinnah Women University in Rawalpindi, Pakistan with a specialization in miniature painting and was awarded a Gold Medal for her thesis show. After graduating, she started her career with a focus on group shows in art galleries in Islamabad/Rawalpindi and later moved to Lahore and Karachi. She also taught at the National College of Arts Rawalpindi, Pakistan, as a Lecturer. In 2016, she held her first solo exhibition titled “Imagined Immortals” in Karachi, Pakistan. We caught up with Komal to learn more about life after her LMSAI Fellowship.
Dec 13, 2022 | Announcements, Community, In Region, News
2022 Highlights SANDERS THEATRE ROCKS IN CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS OF AZADI LMSAI KICKS OFF ITS CLIMATE CHANGE FOCUS WITH HARVARD GRANT WELCOMING MONIKA SETIA AS INDIA ASSOCIATE COUNTRY DIRECTOR ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATES THE MAKING OF MODERN SOUTH ASIA LAUNCH AND...
Dec 8, 2022 | News
The Mittal Institute has been working hard to expanding our programming and events to cover the regional depth and breadth and geographical reach of South Asia. In this look back on 2022, we rounded up our favorite interviews and stories with Mittal faculty, students,...
Dec 7, 2022 | Announcements, Associates, Community, Faculty, Fellows, News, Students
As winter descends on Cambridge’s skies, our thoughts turn to novels read by the comfort of roaring fires. Nothing completes a holiday season more than a good book—so we turned to our community of faculty, fellows and students for their help in curating a list of Holiday Reading Recommendations. They shared their favorite South Asian authors; their most inspiring reads; and what they hope to cozy up with this holiday season.
Dec 1, 2022 | News
This week, the Mittal Institute held a two-day conference that brought together 45+ speakers from across the globe, including remarks by Ambassador Sardar Masood Khan and a keynote by Justice Qazi Faez Isa of Pakistan’s Supreme Court. The event was spearheaded...
