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URBANIZATION SEMINAR SERIES
EMcounting the Mela: From Chennai to Prayag *
* With apologies to Prof Eck 🙂 This blog marks the final series of posts from the FXB Center Public Health team. It explains in some detail how the disease surveillance project was implemented and focuses on our local team composition. Subsequent post…
The cyclical city
In April began the planning of the Kumbh Nagri. In October they secured its space and laid down roads in November. InDecember they marked the plots and allocated land. Come January Kumbh Nagri turned into a mega city of tents, tin, and plywood: resplen…
Mauni Amavasya: Everyone was invited. And everyone came.
It’s 1:30am and we are now in Benaras. We delayed our morning departure to spend another day at the Kumbh. Mauni Amavasya was not the uneventful day the organizers had hoped it would be. Officials say that 30 million people (one and a half times Bo…
HealthTap: Bringing Interactive Mobile Health to Asia and Beyond
Ron Gutman, founder and CEO of HealthTap, joined Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of SAI, David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics, Harvard School of Public Health, and students from across Harvard and...
NY Times Blog on HSPH Project
NY Times Blog on HSPH Project Can Big Data From Epic Indian Pilgrimage Help Save Lives? Big data, meet humanity. The South Asia Institute at Harvard has sent a team of public health specialists to one of the largest gatherings in the world, the Kumbh M…
Waiting for an Uneventful Day
February 9, 2013: The crowds in the Kumbh Nagri have swollen to fill the sandy Gangetic floodplain as the largest bathing day begins tomorrow. Today the roads brimmed with pilgrims on their way to and from the Sangam; the barricades rolled to block all…
Business Findings of the Kumbh Mela Team (comments for TOI)
(I drafted these comments in response to a query from Times of India directed through Meena). Questions 1) Purpose of the “Mapping the Kumbh Mela”- South Asia Institute 2) Could you elaborate on the focus of the project? – Faculty member at the S…

Weak “Stateness” and National Identity: Contextualizing the Military’s Role in Pakistan’s History
Country experts tend to imagine that their areas of interest are uniquely and distinctly of special scholarly interest. Pakistan, according to Aqil Shah (former Rhodes Scholar and currently a Junior Fellow with Harvard University’s prestigious Society of Fellows)...
UPCOMING GRANT DEADLINES
SAI Graduate Student Associates, Deadline March 1 Doctoral degree candidates from all Harvard academic departments and professional schools are eligible to apply. Applicants from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences should have completed their General Examinations...
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