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Fri, Nov 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Atiya Khan, SAI Aman Fellow Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In the midst of a massive political upheaval in the late 1950s, when the ruling party, the Muslim League, was riven with an internal crisis and leftist groups had forged their alliances in the form […]
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Shridhar Venkat, CEO, Akshaya Patra Foundation; Eisenhower Fellow The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest NGO-directed school meal program, feeding 1.4 million children every day. To advance its vision that “No child in India will be deprived of education because of hunger”, the Foundation operates out of 22 locations throughout India, serving almost 11,000 […]
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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 05:15pm — 06:30pm, ET
Arts Lecture and Opening Reception for ‘Coded Elegance’ Photographer Pablo Bartholomew, whose career spans over 40 years, introspects on his personal collection of historical photographs as well as works by other photographers from the pre and post-Independence era, rounding off by elaborating on contemporary practices. This visual walkthrough consists of photographic work that has marked and influenced him. […]
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SAI Arts Initiative Seminar Pablo Bartholomew, Photojournalist Discussant: Bridget Corbett Hanna, Post-Doc, Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University Chair: Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University In December 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide Factory, now owned by Dow Chemicals, caused the death of thousands of inhabitants of Bhopal and incapacitated the living who have […]
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SAI Book Talk Rohini Mohan, Author V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Author of Love Marriage Chair: Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School Book sale to follow event. For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army […]
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Mon, Nov 3, 2014 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
SAI Mahindra Lecture Nandan Nilekani, Former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; Co-founder of Infosys; Author of ‘Imagining India’ Reception to follow. Read: Creating unique digital identities
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Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 04:15pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Vyjayanthi Rao, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research in New York Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Harvard University Cosponsored by the Harvard University Social Anthropology Colloquium
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Sun, Nov 2, 2014 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
SAI Community Event An evening with: Folk Minstrel Paban Das Baul; Poet and songwriter Prthwiraj Choudhury; Author Mimlu Sen; and Music producer Dipankar Jojo Chaki ‘Music Stories of Bengal’ is an experiment in bringing live Bengali music of various genres together. This Project is the brainchild of Dipankar Jojo Chaki, Indian National Award Winning Music Producer. Paban is […]
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Fri, Oct 31, 2014 - Sun, Nov 2, 2014, ET
Pakistani Film Festival Cosponsored by the Brown University India Initiative Fri Oct 31: Hallow’s Eve: Chainsaw Spatter 6:00 pm Zibaah Khana (77minutes) Sat Nov 1: Saint’s Day: Directors in Conversation 11:20 am A Brief History of Pakistani Cinema Lecture by Iftikhar Dadi 12:00 pm Josh (104 minutes) 2:00 pm Q+A with Josh Director, Iram Parveen […]
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SAI Education Seminar Tara Beteille, World Bank Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School This paper provides a detailed account of how the system of teacher transfers operates in large parts of India. It presents evidence to suggest that teacher transfers form the bedrock of a patronage-based low-accountability school system. Politicians need teachers because teachers are […]
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