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.
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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.
The City and South Asia Podcast: Floating on Waste Islands
The processes of urbanization, globalization, and climate change have made traditional methods of waste management difficult for the Maldives. In this podcast, SAI talks with Krishna Matturi, recent GSD graduate, about the country’s “unique culture of waste” and its possible solutions.
Update from the Harvard Club of Nepal
On Feb. 10, the Harvard Club of Nepal (HCN) hosted an event in Kathmandu with two newspaper editors who discussed the current political situation in the country and the role that media could play in resolving the chaos of constitution-making. The HCN, a group of Harvard alumni, has recently been reactivated.
Nutrition’s future leaders
Emerging demographic, economic and dietary factors suggest that a large burden of preventable illness is poised to develop in India requiring training for a new cadre of Indian nutrition scientists. There is a great need for nutrition researchers in the country, but...
Preserving and promoting South Asia’s past
Learn about Muhammad Zahir, SAI Aman Fellow’s work on uncovering Pakistan’s archaeological past.
India’s path to global leadership
The India Conference at Harvard, hosted by students at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, and cosponsored by SAI, is one of the largest India conferences in the US. This year’s conference will take place on March 7 and 8, 2015, and will bring together...
Summer Program: Mobile Technology and Big Data in India (New Deadline)
The program, located in India in summer 2015, provides Harvard undergraduates an opportunity to examine the use of mobile technology in to deliver services in the areas of education, health, agriculture, and banking. Deadline to apply: Monday, February 28, 2015 (new deadline).
International Photo Contest Winners
Congratulations to Gillian Slee, Harvard College ’16, and Sara Melissa Theiss, Harvard College ’15, who were chosen by SAI as winners for the Office of International Education’s Annual International Photo Contest.
Podcast: Intellectual History of the East India Company
Listen to SAI Graduate Student Associate Josh Ehrlich discuss his dissertation, which explores the languages of knowledge and enlightenment in the ideologies of the East India Company and its critics.