South Asia In The News: India’s Cash Crisis
SAI and Harvard affiliates react to India’s decision to withdraw the legal status of certain cash notes.
Category : News
Student voices: Underground banking in Myanmar
Jasmine Chia, Harvard College ’18, started her summer in Myanmar intending to study Vipassana Buddhism, but became fascinated with a different topic: a banking phenomenon that explains the links between capitalist religion and political engagement.
SAI welcomes Sanjay Kumar, India Country Director
SAI is pleased to welcome Sanjay Kumar to the team as our India Country Director. He will lead all of SAI’s activities in India and will be based at our office in Delhi.
A change called NeHA
In an article for the Indian Express, Satchit Balsari and Tarun Khanna write that the proposed National e-Health Authority could launch a digital health revolution in India, but safeguards need to be in place to protect patients’ privacy. This is in follow up to the recently held Radcliffe Advanced Seminar, “Exchanging Health Information.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
See what the SAI community is thankful for this year.
Student Voices: Resilient Design to Resilient Buildings: Quality Assurance in Nepal’s Remote Mountains
This is part of a series in which we share reports from Harvard students who have traveled to South Asia with support from a SAI grant. By Justin Henceroth, MDes Risk and Resilience, 2017, Harvard Graduate School of Design The SUV slowed to a crawl as we prepared to...
Q+A with Venki Murthy: The excitement of neuroscience
Venkatesh Murthy is Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and the the co-director of SAI’s Boston Bangalore Biosciences Beginnings Program. He was recently interviewed about his work and how he became interested in neuroscience by Current Biology. Click...
Nov. 29 – Dec. 9: Visiting Artists at Harvard
During their time at Harvard, the artists will display their work on campus, meet with students, attend courses, and give a public seminar.
Election reflections: White with rage
In a column for the Indian Express, Ashutosh Varshney, Brown University, who studies ethnic conflict and peace, democracy, and political economy in India, argues that the Trump vote is not primarily born of globalization anxieties, but is rather the outcome of white nationalism.
Student Voices: Women and mental illness
Angela Leocata, Harvard College ’18, interned at Sangath in Goa over the summer to research community-based intervention for maternal depression.
[Video] DeCoding Asia: Mediating the Megalopolis
In this video, architecture historian and critic Kenneth Frampton talks about the processes of urbanization. He advocates for landscape architecture and the megaform as tools for mediating the rise of today’s megalopolis.
A peek at Harvard Art Museums’ South Asia collection
Rachel Parikh (@rachel.parikh), the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow of South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums took over SAI’s Instagram account (@HarvardSAI) to highlight some of the museum’s amazing South Asian Art collection.