2017 Winter Grant Recipients
SAI has awarded grants to 15 students who will travel to India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Pakistan for research and internships.
Category : News
Livelihood Creation Profile: Raah Foundation
This is part a series in which we will profile organizations in India who received a Social Innovation grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. ORGANIZATION DETAILS Organisation Name: Raah Foundation Registered As: Trust Year Founded: 2011...
SAI hosts artists Komal Shahid Khan and Meenakshi Sengupta
Komal Shahid Khan, from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Meenakshi Sengupta, from Kolkata, India, attended classes, met with students and faculty, and displayed their work on campus. They also collaborated on an interactive performance piece about the Partition of India.
Komal Shahid Khan: “Art, in itself, is the process of creation”
From Nov. 29 – Dec. 9, the South Asia Institute hosted artist Komal Shahid Khan at Harvard through the Visiting Artist Program. Khan is a Visual Artist, based in Islamabad, Pakistan. She graduated from the University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 2012 and then did...
Meenakshi Sengupta: Exploring gender identity in art
From Nov. 29 – Dec. 9, the South Asia Institute hosted artists Meenakshi Sengupta at Harvard through the Visiting Artist Program. Born in 1987, Kolkota, India, Meenakshi holds a B.V.A. 2011 (Painting), from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India and a M.F.A. 2013...
What Next? Trump and Asia
On Dec. 5, Harvard’s Asia related centers hosted an event in which experts discussed what’s next for Asia in a Trump administration. It is the first in a series of public talks at Harvard on U.S.-Asia relations during Trump’s presidency.
SAI welcomes Arts Council member
The South Asia Institute is honored to welcome Dipti Mathur to the SAI Arts Council. Council members provide support and advisement for the Arts at SAI program, which aims to connect South Asia’s curators, museum administrators, artists, and art educators with Harvard...
Working paper: Gender, Governance, and Labor: The Globalized Commodity Chain and the Bangladesh Garment Industry
A recent working paper by Fauzia Ahmed, SAI Research Affiliate, explores the framework of gender, governance, and labor, at all levels of the global value chain: workers; factory owners; buyers; and consumers.
SAI announces Raghunathan Family Fellowship Program
SAI is pleased to announce the naming of the Raghunathan Family Fellowship for South Asian Studies, with generous support from Advisory Council members Sribala and Arvind Raghunathan.
Student voices: Teaching history through empathy
Asad Liaqat, SAI Graduate Associate, spent the summer working with The History Project in Lahore, Pakistan. He evaluated workshops aimed at improving critical thinking and increasing empathy in schoolchildren in Pakistan and India, especially towards historical narratives.
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.
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.