Harvard South Asia historian awarded ‘Genius’ Grant
Congratulations to Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard, on the fantastic achievement of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
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Call for applications: A Workshop on Genomic Applications in Healthcare & Translational Research
The aim of this intensive workshop is to introduce highly talented Indian students to the emerging area of genomics.
City in Garden Event with Rajnish Wattas
Most people in India and over the world would describe Chandigarh as Le Corbusier’s ultimate canvas, mostly associated with its poetic buildings and planning. Professor Wattas, an avid tree lover as he calls himself, eloquently elaborated on the magnificent city’s...
Nandan Nilekani speaks at Harvard SAI about Aadhaar
Nandan Nilekani, founder Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, a mammoth bio-metric infrastructure that establishes the identity of an individual vis-à-vis the Indian state (aka the Aadhar), engaged with a full room audience on the benefits of...
South Asia internship grants for Harvard students
We offer internship grants to Harvard students who want to spend summer or winter working on South Asia-related projects, preferably with one of our partner organizations.
Partition Stories: Collection and Analysis of Oral Narratives
We aim to collect stories, reflections, memories, or experiences through crowdsourcing as well as through an online survey.
Fall class: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Social and Economic Problems in the Developing World (SW47)
The primary objective of the course is to engage students with the modern day challenges affecting developing countries, and to examine a range of entrepreneurial attempts to solve these problems.
Crossroads Summer Program 2017
Fifty driven, accomplished students from eleven countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East formed the inaugural cohort of the Harvard South Asia Institute’s Crossroads Summer Program.
Partition: The LMSAI Harvard Podcast
Partition is one of the defining events of the modern era and on its 70th anniversary, leading scholars explore and analyze its continuing impact in our special series of podcasts.
SAI Partition events: Lahore, Karachi and Delhi
All are invited to our special Partition events in August – the discussions, exhibitions and performances are free and open to the public.
[VIDEO] SAI Director’s presentation at WEF in China
The South Asia Institute’s Director, Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, spoke in June 2017 about our Partition project at the World Economic Forum in China.
Does the Fight for Working Women’s Rights in India Leave Out Informal Workers?
The Startup Wednesday show on India’s NDTV explores the challenges of home-based working women and startups that are employing and empowering women in India. Watch as experts, entrepreneurs and the working women themselves talk about the issues they face.