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April 2: Mumbai Mari Jaan at the GSD
The series at the GSD will feature Parinda, Black Friday, Lunchbox, and Mumbai Mari Jaan.
Webinar: Planning for disasters
Q+A with Asma Jahangir
In an interview with SAI, Jahangir discusses women’s empowerment, freedom of expression, and Pakistan’s complicated political relationships with India and the US. Jahangir delivered the Asia Center’s Tsai Lecture on Mar. 4
Highlights from the India Conference at Harvard
The conference hosted over 100 speakers and more than 600 guests. The theme of the conference, India’s Path to Global Leadership, included panels that covered a range of topics from healthcare to education to investing and finance.
Pakistan from crisis to crisis
Mar. 13: Understanding the Changing Indian Voter with Milan Vaishnav
A lecture at Harvard by Milan Vaishnav, associate in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as part of the South Asian Politics seminar series
A literary colossus
The Murty Classical Library of India hopes to introduce a vast corpus of literature, thought, and science to fresh audiences across the world. “It’s completely transformative,” said Parimal Patil, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies and SAI Steering Committee member.
Q+A: Cultivating peace in Afghanistan with saffron
“We are leveraging the power of the American consumer economy to increase stability in Afghanistan,” says Keith Alaniz, a US Army veteran, who co-founded Rumi Spice with several HBS alums.
Podcast: Decolonization in Nagaland and South West Africa
SAI GSA Lydia Walker, PhD Candidate, Department of History, talks about her dissertation, a connective project that looks at decolonization in the early 1960s.
The City and South Asia Podcast: The Season of Migration in the City
Listen to Namita Dharia discuss the life of a migrant worker in urban India and how the construction industry is addressing issues of child labor and women’s safety.
Innovative healthcare solutions
Read highlights from SAI’s roundtable discussion in the Bay Area on India’s healthcare system organized in collaboration with USAID and the South Asian Healthcare Leadership Forum.