Meet our 2016-17 Graduate Student Associates
Every year, SAI supports Graduate Student Associates from across the different schools at Harvard whose research focuses on South Asia.
Category : News
Student voices: The politics of contemporary women’s rights in Myanmar
This is part of a recurring series in which we share reports from Harvard students who have traveled to South Asia with support from a SAI grant. By Kate Hoffman, Harvard College ’17 Kate spent part of her summer conducting research in Myanmar on her thesis...
In their own words: Why I support the arts
In a recent interview with SAI, Arts Council member Omar Saeed spoke about his intersecting interests in arts, education, and health.
Student voices: Labour and local politics in the Indian coal industry
“What my interviews and primary sources make clear is that much like the rest of India, there has been a major change in the role of the public sector,” writes Rohit Chandra, PhD candidate at HKS, who spent the summer in India researching the Indian coal industry.
Partition Project moves forward with in-region meetings
The project focuses on the humanitarian consequences experienced by those on both sides of the Punjab border.
September 8: Welcome Back Mixer
Meet SAI’s fellows and faculty, learn about funding opportunities, and get to know Harvard’s South Asia student groups.
Student voices: Cultural connection
“This study abroad program allowed me to connect more with how I identify myself,” writes Ajay Singh, Harvard College ’18, who spent his summer studying Punjabi at the American Institute of Indian Studies in Chandigarh with support from a SAI grant.
Webinar: Working with boys and men to prevent gender based violence
By Anisha Gopi, Project Manager On July 28th 2016, the Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI) and Tata Trusts hosted the third webinar of a multi-part series on Women’s Empowerment. The webinar, titled ‘Working with Boys and Men to Prevent Gender Based...
Emerging markets: Promise and peril
Several years ago, Tarun Khanna, SAI Director and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, was exploring the streets of Jakarta, the hot and steamy capital of Indonesia. In need of an ice pack to keep some medication cool, he was baffled by the...
Contemporary Developing Countries begins
On Wednesday, August 31, the innovative SAI platform course SW47: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems began. Over 80 students, a combination of undergraduates and graduate students, “shopped” the...
Fall course: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems
This course will provide a framework (and multiple lenses) through which to think about the salient economic and social problems of the five billion people of the developing world, and to work in a team setting toward identifying entrepreneurial solutions to such problems.
Doing Good By Doing Business —Creating Emerging Markets
This short video looks at the role of business in responding to poverty, illiteracy and gender inequality in South Asia. It forms part of the on-going Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School directed by Professor Geoffrey Jones, which uses...