Category : News
Nov 10, 2014 | Arts Program, Community, News
“Bartholomew’s calm and measured narration of his time spent in the city and the ethics of photojournalism more generally, at once contextualized this otherwise unimaginable tragedy and helped us reflect on its legacies.” Indian photographer Pablo...
Nov 9, 2014 | Faculty, News
By Abhishek Rahman, MDiv Candidate, Harvard Divinity School Beginning in the 1980s, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army defeated the separatist guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a fierce battle that...
Nov 6, 2014 | Faculty, News
Nandan Nilekani, former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) delivered the SAI Annual Mahindra Lecture on Nov. 3. During his tenure as chairman of UIDAI, Nilekani designed and implemented Aadhaar, a national biometric identification project wherein each Indian is issued a twelve-digit number that is unique to them.
Nov 3, 2014 | Faculty, News
By Ghazal Gulati and Divya Sooryakumar, International Education Policy Ed. M Candidates, Harvard Graduate School of Education Tara Béteille of the World Bank joined the South Asia Institute on Thursday, October 30th to discuss teacher accountability in India at an...
Nov 1, 2014 | Blog, Community, News, Students
On October 17th, the Harvard India Student Group hosted a successful Diwali celebration. The attendees came from all over Harvard: Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Extension School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and...
Oct 30, 2014 | News
Join SAI for 2 events and a photo exhibition with Indian photojournalist Pablo Bartholomew, who will be at Harvard as part of SAI’s Arts Initiative, on Nov. 4 and 5, 2014.
Oct 30, 2014 | Fellows, News, Pakistan
Atiya Khan, SAI’s Aman Fellow for the 2014 fall semester, is a historian of Modern South Asia and through her research, aims to recover the untold story of progressive politics in Pakistan.
Oct 30, 2014 | Blog, News
This is the third blog post in a weekly series from students enrolled in the course ‘Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems’ co-taught by SAI Director Tarun Khanna. The course features several modules on issues...
Oct 29, 2014 | Blog, News
By Abhishek Rahman, MDiv Candidate, Harvard Divinity School Suketu Mehta, a journalist and fiction writer, visited Harvard University last week to deliver three lectures to sold-out audiences at the Graduate School of Design, all on the topic of ‘The Secret Life...
Oct 23, 2014 | Blog, India, News, South Asia in the News
What is next on the agenda for India? Read what Jaganath Sankaran, a postdoctoral research associate at the National Security Education Center at Los Alamos National Laboratories say about the future of India’s space program.
Oct 23, 2014 | Community, Faculty, In Region, News
This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette By Jennifer Doody, Harvard Correspondent For Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and director of the South Asia Institute, aspiring entrepreneurs could learn a lot from...
Oct 21, 2014 | Community, News
The South Asia Institute wishes everyone a happy and prosperous Diwali.
