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Sun, Sep 9, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm
RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1948 Raj Kapoor’s first film as director and star, the brooding, noir-ish Aag often feels like a 1930s Hollywood melodrama with an expressionistic twist, and with a distinct influence from Citizen Kane in its complex flashback […]
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Sun, Sep 9, 2012 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm
RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1953 A tear-jerking neorealist tale in the mold of Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine, Boot Polish follows an orphaned brother and sister who are forced by their horrid aunt to beg on the streets, until their lives are torn apart by […]
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Sat, Sep 8, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm
RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1951 One of the greatest and most famous Indian films ever made, Awaara was a global sensation and marks the first appearance of the tramp persona that would make Raj Kapoor famous: a sly, sexy bandit, […]
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Fri, Sep 7, 2012 from 07:00pm — 09:00pm
RAJ KAPOOR FILM SERIES presented by: SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE AND THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Directed by Raj Kapoor, India, 1955 Raj Kapoor stars as country bumpkin Raju, who arrives in the big city to make his fortune and woos honest schoolteacher Vidya (Nargis) while secretly getting deeper and deeper into the urban underworld.
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Tue, Sep 4, 2012 from 05:00pm — 07:30pm
MAPPING MUMBAI’S TOILETS Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design James Potter, Master’s Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Jennifer Weaver, Master’s Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Chair: Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public […]
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Thu, Aug 9, 2012 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Directed by Shoaib Mansoor, Pakistan A female convict on death row, her last wish is to tell her story to the media.
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Directed by Marc Forster, United States Amir returns to Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, […]
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Mon, Jul 30, 2012 - Fri, Aug 3, 2012
From July 30 to August 3, the South Asia Initiative (SAI) at Harvard University hosted a “Multidisciplinary Approach to University Leadership Development” Workshop for university leaders from Maharashtra, India. Thirty leaders and policy makers attended, including vice chancellors, directors, principals and deans of both public and private higher learning institutions, as well as senior Government […]
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Thu, May 3, 2012 from 01:00pm — 03:00pm
RELIGION, MEANING AND BELIEF IN MEDIEVAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETIES “Social Justice in Islamicate South Asia: Ismat Chughtai’s Cosmopolitan Struggle” Sadaf Jaffer, Doctoral Candidate in the Indo-Muslim Culture program at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations “Producing Islam – Belief, Practice, & Politics at an Islamic Seminary (Madrasa) in Pakistan” Bilal A. […]
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Fri, Apr 27, 2012 from 09:00am — 03:00pm
Keynote Speaker: Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard University Co-sponsored event with Educators for Teaching India (EFTI)
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