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NEW DATE | Fireside Chat with Lakshmi Puri, Author of “Swallowing the Sun” and former UN Assistant Secretary-General

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Tue, Nov 19, 2024 from 02:00pm — 03:30pm, ET

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Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School

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The India Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School and the Mittal Institute invite to you a fireside chat with Lakshmi Puri, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, to discuss her critically acclaimed and best-selling novel, Swallowing the Sun.

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Book Talk: “Making Excellence A Habit: The Secret to Building a World-Class Healthcare System in India”

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Fri, Sep 27, 2024 from 11:30am — 12:15pm, ET

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Hybrid – 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, and online via Zoom

Making Excellence A Habit Book

Join the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, for a discussion by Dr. V. Mohan on his book “Making Excellence A Habit: The Secret to Building a World-Class Healthcare System in India.” 

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Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century | Book Discussion

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Wed, Feb 21, 2024 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

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India International Centre, Annexe, New Delhi, and online on Zoom

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sugata bose book discussion

Organized by the Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, the session will host a conversation around Prof. Sugata Bose’s new book Asia after Europe – Imagining A Continent in the Long Twentieth Century. The talk will be moderated by Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

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Book Talk with Lila Bhan and Siddharth Kak

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Fri, Oct 20, 2023 from 11:00am — 12:00pm, ET

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Online on Zoom

The Mittal Institute brings to you a book discussion on ‘Love, Exile, Redemption: The Saga of Kashmir’s Last Pandit Prime Minister and his English Wife’ with authors Lila Bhan and Siddharth Kak, and moderated by Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University. CLICK TO WATCH THE EVENT! Date and […]

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Book Talk: Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India

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Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:00am, ET

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Harvard Science and Engineering Complex, Room 1.402

A Center for Research and Computation on Society Seminar featuring Prof. Rajesh Veeraraghavan from Georgetown University  Abstract: How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient due to resistance from entrenched local power systems. The book is […]

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Book Launch: “The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and Its Reverberations”

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Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:00pm, ET

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Belfer Room (S020), CGIS South

This discussion will mark the in-region release of this book on Partition and provides an opportunity to reflect on how this massive event has shaped the subcontinent’s cultural, economic, political and social dimensions including architecture, art, demographics, language, and music.

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Book Talk: “Making Meritocracy – Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present”

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Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:30pm, ET

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Belfer Room (S020), CGIS South

What can India and China, the world’s most populous countries, teach us about meritocracy? In Making Meritocracy, Professors Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of disciplines to discuss how these two societies have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically, philosophically, and in practice. India and China […]

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