Radhika Blinderman, PhD Candidate, Department of South Asian Studies, comes to Harvard after 13 years of Sanskrit study, and plans to analyze the most innovative figure in the philosophy of Indian language.
SAI’s Graduate Student Associates (GSAs) are doctoral students from various departments at Harvard whose research focuses on South Asia.
The Harvard School of Public Health will be offering two courses for students to travel to South Asia in January.
Deadline to apply: Friday, September 19, 11:59 PM
On Monday, September 8, SAI held its annual Welcome Back Chaat party to celebrate the start of the school year. Over 200 students, faculty and Harvard affiliates enjoyed delicious South Asian food, and learned more about SAI’s internship and funding opportunities.
‘Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems,’ taught by Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School is now entering its fourth year.
Commencement exercises were held at Harvard University on May 29, 2014. Former SAI students, including student coordinators, Graduate Student Associates, and grant recipients received degrees from various Harvard schools.
This year, with the generous support of the Prasad family, the South Asia Institute has funded four Harvard College undergraduate students from various disciplines to study and complete internships in India this summer on issues ranging from the role of media in Indian democracy to environmental governance.
Melissa Theiss, a junior psychology concentrator at Harvard College, will be interning this summer at VidyaGyan with support from a SAI internship grant. VidyaGyan is a school for rural underprivileged students in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India that takes an innovative approach to providing transformational education for students from 6th to 12th grades