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Sun, Wind, and Biomass: India’s Path to a Sustainable Future

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Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 10:00am, ET

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Virtual Via Zoom

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A Harvard Climate Action Week book talk with Prof. Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and Prem Shankar Jha, Former Visiting Fellow, Harvard-China Project; author and journalist. Join Prof. McElroy and Prem Shankar Jha as they discuss their new book, Sun, Wind, and Biomass: India’s Path to a Sustainable Future. The book examines the current state of the Indian economy, tracing its trajectory towards a fossil fuel-free energy future.

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Revisiting the 1959 Artifact Donation from the Government of India to Malaya

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Thu, Feb 27, 2025 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET

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Cambridge – CGIS South, Belfer S020

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Artifact Donation Feb 27 Final Poster

Drawing on her recent publication, Priya Maholay-Jaradi will read the 1959 artifact donation from the government of India to Malaya beyond its apparent geo-political and diplomatic connotations, i.e., the culturally hegemonic proposition of the Indianization of Southeast Asia, and India’s diplomatic gesture in a new regional order.

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Rethinking the Bengal School of Art through the Life and Art of Ardhendu Prasad Banerjee

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Tue, Feb 11, 2025 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET

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Cambridge – CGIS South, S153

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Poster Ardhendu Prasad Banerjee Event Feb 11

What can art from private archives held by the family of an overlooked Bengal School artist tell us today? Hear from Mittal Institute Bajaj Fellow Prof. Nilanjana Mukherjee on the life and art of her maternal grandfather, the late Ardhendu Prasad Banerjee.

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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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Historic Water Architecture and its Contemporarization – The State of Architecture in South Asia with A. Mridul

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Wed, Nov 6, 2024 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

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Cambridge – CGIS South, Room S354

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Water Architecture Event Nov 6

Join us for another session of the popular “The State of Architecture in South Asia” series. This session will feature A. Mridul, principal of A. Mridul, Architect, and alumnus of Chandigarh College of Architecture, India.

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CANCELED | The State of Architecture in South Asia with Sai Balakrishnan

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Wed, Oct 30, 2024 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET

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Cambridge – CGIS South, Room S354

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Join us for another session of the popular “The State of Architecture in South Asia” series. This session will feature Sai Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. 

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Trading F.S.I. for Privately Owned Public Space: Lessons from Practice Worldwide

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Wed, Feb 21, 2024 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET

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Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS, Fort, Mumbai, India

This lecture will explore Jerold S. Kayden’s research and scholarship to address issues of land use and environmental law, public-private real estate development, public space, urban disasters, climate change, design competitions, and cultural space. Please join us for this event, taking place in Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS, Mumbai, India.

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