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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 from 05:15pm — 07:00pm, ET
South Asia Across Disciplines Graduate Workshop Speaker: Vineeta Sinha, Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Discussant: Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School Using the history of colonial railway construction in Singapore and Malaysia as a lens, Prof. Sinha narrates the interlocking accounts of Indian labour migrations to these […]
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Tue, Mar 27, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Dr. K. Thangaraj is a Senior Principal Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad. His main research interests are the origin of modern humans, cardiovascular diseases, mitochondrial disorders, male infertility, sex determination, forensic genetics and the Genetic basis of Ayurveda prakritis.
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Tue, Mar 27, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Ancient records of early Buddhism, recovered from Tibet, identify five great centres of learning a thousand years after the birth of Prince Gautama Buddha. Of the five, two are amongst the four hundred Buddhist sites in Bangladesh; Somapura Mahavihara (Paharpur) and Jaggadala. These centers could not have thrived without patronage and proximity of the Silk Road which brought trade and Buddhism close together. Hasna will discuss a trip she took in 2015 and 2017 to Mongolia in search of a connection between Mongolia and India via Bangladesh.
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Mon, Mar 26, 2018 from 12:00pm — 01:00pm, ET
Supreme Court of India: The Beginnings, George H. Gadbois, Jr., edited and introduced by Vikram Raghavan and Vasujith Ram (Oxford Univ. Press 2018). Book Talk Panelists include: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin School of […]
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Thu, Mar 22, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh is a Board Member (Finance) of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which has a budget of USD 17 billion. He is also the CEO and Managing Director of the operations arm of the Indian Highway Management Company Ltd. Mr. Singh served as the Joint Secretary to the Government for 5 years and was responsible for the policy planning of PPPs in National Highways.
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Tue, Mar 20, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
Professor Sax will discuss the pre-colonial society of the Western Himalayas, which consisted of small territories ruled by local devatas (Hindu deities) through their oracles. He will provide ethnographic details of the system as it still exists, paying special attention to how it has adapted to the modern, secular Indian republic.
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Mon, Mar 19, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
Assa Doron, Australian National University Robin Jeffrey, Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore Chair: Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India (Harvard UP, 2018) examines national assets and obstacles for achieving a cleaner India. The authors argue that obstacles that appear unique to India […]
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Fri, Mar 16, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
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To launch the official opening, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute (SAI), Harvard University, India Office will be hosting a series of events in March and April. For the opening celebration, Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard, will perform a ribbon cutting at the new office space in New Delhi.
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Thu, Mar 15, 2018 - Sat, Mar 17, 2018, ET
The conference attempts to bring together varied interests, perspectives and contexts that go into an understanding of the state of housing in India, which straddles a spectrum of stakeholders and actors including architects, urban designers, planners, local governance bodies, private real-estate developers, financial institutions and policy-makers.
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Sat, Mar 10, 2018 from 08:00am — 06:00pm, ET
SAI Director Tarun Khanna will deliver the opening Keynote Address at the Babson India Symposium. The symposium will explore entrepreneurship in India. Other featured speakers include Abhinav Bindra, Olympic gold medalist and entrepreneur; Malini Agarwal, founder and blogger-in-chief at MissMalini.com; Harsha Agadi, president and CEO of Crawford & Company. The symposium will end with a performance from the Berklee School of Music’s India Ensemble.
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