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“Argaḍa” and “Nirargaḍa”

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Thu, Feb 9, 2017 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

Cosponsored Event Liu Zhen, Professor, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/Discussant: Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University This talk will offer a short introduction to the Sanskrit word “argaḍa” and its antonym “nirargaḍa”. The word “argaḍa” first appears in Brāhmaṇa literature […]

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Misaq-e-Ishq: The Covenant of Love

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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 from 07:00pm — 08:30pm, ET

Cosponsored Event The Lahore Biennale Foundation, the LUMS School of Education and the Harvard South Asia Institute present An Evening dedicated to Music, Poetry and the Arts Misaq-e-Ishq: The Covenant of Love Featuring Music and poetry recital by Ali Sethi With Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim Religion and Cultures at Harvard University And an introduction […]

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Jazz Goes to Bollywood

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Wed, Sep 14, 2016 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

Cosponsored Event MIT-India and the Harvard South Asia Institute present South Asia and Its Diasporas, a speakers series Naresh Fernandes, Author of Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age Discussant: Vivek Bald, Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT In the late 1950s, a period acknowledged as the Golden Era of Hindi film music, Bollywood songs were enlivened by […]

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The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India

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Wed, May 9, 2018 from 12:15pm — 01:45pm, ET

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 Speaker(s):  David Engerman, Ottilie Springer Professor of History, Brandeis University; Center Associate, Davis Center Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University

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Reporting on Asia: A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows

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Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:15pm, ET

Glenda M. Gloria, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler, Philippines social news network Shalini Singh, Features Reporter, New Delhi, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; founding trustee at the People’s Archive of Rural India Bonny Symons-Brown, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; former TV news anchor, Jakarta, Indonesia Edward Wong, The New York Times; […]

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