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Panel Discussion: Democracy in Distress in South Asia

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Tue, Oct 9, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

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Panelists Sugata Bose Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Rohit De Assistant Professor of History, Yale University Sreenivasan Jain Anchor and Managing Editor, New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) Ayesha Jalal Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University Moderator Homi Bhabha Director, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard

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Gender, Violence and Vulnerabilities of Adolescents in India

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Wed, Oct 3, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

As part of our ongoing India Seminar Series, we are partnering with the Center on Gender Equity and Health, UC San Diego for a talk titled, ‘Gender, Violence and Vulnerabilities of Adolescents in India’ by Dr. Anita Raj, Tata Chancellor Professor of Medicine, Director of Center on Gender Equity & Health (Department of Medicine), UC […]

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Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: Evidence and Accountability

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Wed, Oct 3, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) surveyed leaders from 604 Rohingya hamlets in Myanmar’s Rakhine state encompassing more than 916,000 people. The findings, coupled with in-depth interviews and forensic medical examinations of Rohingya survivors, point to a widespread and systematic pattern of targeted violence – including rapes and killings of women, men, and children – that drove more than 720,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh. Dr. Parveen Parmar and Dr. Jen Leigh will present the findings of these studies.

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Book Talk | Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries with Tarun Khanna

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Fri, Sep 28, 2018 from 03:00pm — 04:15pm, ET

COST   Free

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and Harvard Book Store welcome TARUN KHANNA—the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School—for a discussion of his latest book, Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries. About Trust Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted […]

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Tackling Fluorosis: Innovative technology as a solution to the spreading health crisis

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Thu, Sep 27, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

Join us for our ongoing India Seminar Series to discuss the growing challenge of Water Fluorosis, in a discussion titled, ‘Tackling Fluorosis: Innovative technology as a solution to the spreading health crisis’ There are about 66 million people in India suffering from toxic levels of fluoride in their drinking water, these are mostly poor people […]

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The Riyaaz Qawwali Ensemble: A Journey of Cultures and Faiths Through Qawwali

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Wed, Sep 26, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

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Artistic Director and founder of Riyaaz Qawwali, Sonny Mehta, will share his personal story from learning classical music to performing qawwali, the musical genre commonly associated with the Sufi tradition in South Asia. He will demonstrate the basics of qawwali, unfolding the relevant musical elements, poetry and important performance aspects.

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Book Launch | Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

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Mon, Sep 24, 2018 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

Benjamin Siegel, an assistant professor of History at Boston University and a former fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, will discuss his new book “Hungry Nation: Food Famine, and the making of Modern India”, alongside commentators Prakash Humar, an associate professor of History and Asian Studies at Penn State University, and […]

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Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon

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Thu, Sep 20, 2018 - Sat, Sep 22, 2018, ET

There are very few signs that slums will transition out of the urban landscape in the foreseeable future. Even after more than one and a half centuries of policy interventions, starting from efforts to address the effects of industrialization in Europe, slums persist in almost every geography on the planet. Slums are not only visible […]

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