SAI concludes Tata Trusts Livelihood Creation project with conference in Delhi
The 18-month project with Tata Trusts focused on rural livelihood creation in the handicrafts sector, and science and technology-based social entrepreneurship.
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Ali Asani and Ali Sethi pay ode to regional poets at ‘Misaq-e-Ishq’
This was published in Pakistan Today. The Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF) in collaboration with the LUMS School of Education (LUMS SOE) and Harvard South Asia Institute (Harvard SAI) organized an exclusive music and poetry evening on Jan. 17. Renowned musician Ali...
Q+A: Shashank Shah, Livelihood Creation Project Director
For the past 18 months, Shashank Shah has been the Project Director for the SAI-Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation, which has just concluded. SAI spoke to Shah about the project and lessons learned. SAI: Why did this project focus on the theme of livelihood...
The state of higher education in India
On January 12, 2017, SAI hosted a roundtable discussion in Delhi to bring together leaders in the field of higher education in India. The event provided a rare opportunity for the leaders to come together and discuss what is at stake for educational institutions, and...
Tax Collection and Civil Society
This article was published in Harvard Magazine. It highlights the work of SAI Steering Committee Member Asim Khwaja. By Marina N. Bolotnikova AROUND THE WORLD, tax receipts in low- and middle-income countries are much lower than they ought to be. Poor recordkeeping...
Meet our B4 Fellows
As part of SAI’s Boston Bangalore Biosciences Beginnings (B4) Program, five postdoctoral fellows from India will spend a year working at a variety of science labs across Harvard. The fellows have range of specialties, from plant physiology, computational biology, evolutionary cell biology, to molecular genetics.
A new way to detect fake medicines
Fake, substandard, and otherwise compromised medicines are a deadly problem in South Asia and globally. Dr. Muhammad Zaman, visiting faculty at SAI, is working to develop a low-cost, portable and fast way to measure a drug’s purity.
‘Aesthetic approach of Islam is the way forward’
This article was originally published by Dawn.com about a Jan. 13 SAI event cosponsored with Habib University. By Haneen Rafi KARACHI: In an attempt to deconstruct negative stereotypes about Islam that are rampant in popular discourse, there is an urgent need to...
Reversing Brain Drain: City has Best Critical Mass of Neuroscientists
Harvard professor Venkatesh N. Murthy , one of the foremost neuroscientists in the world, was amazed by the state of-the-art laboratory at Bengaluru’s National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS). The place seemed better than his own lab at Harvard. “Bengaluru has the best critical mass of neuroscientists in India,” he said.
Spring 2017 South Asia courses at Harvard
Harvard will offer many courses in the upcoming semester with content related to South Asia, covering topics such as Himalayan art, Asian diasporas, capitalism and cosmology, Ismaili history and culture, and much more.
Engineers, techies delve into the mysteries of brain
SAI recently ran a 2-week course in Bangalore which introduced 25 Indian undergraduate and graduate students to the excitement of brain science.