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Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
(UK/France, 2011) While Aung San Suu Kyi becomes the core of Burma’s democracy movement the relationship she shares with her husband struggles to endure against a background of political turmoil and sacrifice. All films screenings are free and open to the community.
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Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
(India, 1972) A girl, whose mother dies of sorrow from her husband’s family’s rejection, grows up singing and dancing like her mother. She works as a dancing girl and is courted by a prince, but can think only of a man she has never met, who left her a message on the train. She dreams […]
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Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 05:30pm, ET
(India, 1966) After being released from prison for Forgery and Theft, Multi-linguist Raju (Dev Anand) reflects on his life as a Guide; his meeting with the daughter of a prostitute, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who was unhappily married to Marco (Kishore Sahu), and wants to take up acting and dancing as a career. Rosie separates and […]
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Sat, Jun 14, 2014 from 08:00am — 06:00pm, ET
Bangladesh Development Conference 2014 Read the report from the event. The objective of this year’s conference is to explore the linkages among development, garment sector and health and safety issues in Bangladesh. It will highlight the actors and factors that impinge on this linkage at national and global levels. The deliberation will explore how the […]
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Sat, May 17, 2014 from 03:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
The annual South Asian Poets Meeting will be hosted on May 17, 2014, from 3 PM to 5:30 PM in CGIS-010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA. The topic this year is “Mother Tongue,” “Matrubhsha” in Hindi. Poems in any South Asian or related languages are welcome. In lieu of an original poem, one can read a classical […]
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SAI Webinar Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Women lag behind men on many metrics across the world (health, education, wages), including political representation. Professor Iyer will discuss two major questions: •Does electing women to political office make any difference? •Given that women comprise only 21.4% of national parliaments across the […]
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Wed, May 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
A billion people, or one-seventh of the world’s population, now live in slums in developing country cities. Mumbai, India, possibly has the world’s largest population of slum dwellers: 50-60% of its population lives in informal settlements on <9% of the city’s land area. A significant proportion of those slum residents live in “non-notified” settlements that […]
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Mon, May 5, 2014 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
SAI Book Talk Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Chair: Emma Dench, Professor of the Classics and of History, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of the Classics, Harvard University The claim, often made, that India—uniquely among civilizations—lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according […]
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Mon, May 5, 2014 - Wed, May 7, 2014, ET
Cosponsored with Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Oxford Brookes University School of Architecture; Harvard University South Asia Institute; Habitat for Humanity; International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; Harvard Humanitarian Initiative www.designforurbandisaster.com
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Thu, May 1, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Muhammad Zahir, SAI Aman Fellow; Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Hazara University, Pakistan Chair: Richard Meadow, Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory, Harvard Peabody Museum; Senior-Lecturer, Harvard Anthropology Department The protohistoric cemeteries in northwestern Pakistan, commonly known as the Gandhara Grave Culture of Pakistan, have primarily been explained in terms of migrations and as […]
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