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April 17, 2015
This week's news from the South Asia Institute
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South Asia: Local Solutions with Global Impact
The SAI Annual Symposium continues today!
10:30-12:30pm: Water and Poverty in Urban Slums
1:00-3:00pm: Mental Health and Disaster Management
Location: Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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 Students in South Asia this summer
SAI has awarded 35 summer grants to Harvard students for research, internship, and language study in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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Harvard celebrates Holi
Harvard students gathered on campus on Sunday, April 12, to celebrate the festival of colors.
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 Jayaprakash Narayan reconsidered
In a SAI student seminar on April 9, panelists discussed Jayaprakash Narayan, a complex and elusive political thinker from India.
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 South Asia: Local Solutions with Global Impact
TODAY, Friday, Apr. 17, 10:30am - 3:00pm
Loeb House,
17 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Annual Symposium
The symposium brings together scholars and practitioners for a series of workshops on SAI's ongoing research projects.
Free and open to the public.
 Katiyabaaz: Powerless
Film screening and discussion
Deepti Kakkar
and
Fahad Mustafa
, Directors
Chair:
Rohit Chandra
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PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Cosponsored with the Harvard Electricity Policy Group and the Energy Technology Innovation Program
 Unarmed and Upright: Against State-Sanctioned Sectarianism in Pakistan
Monday, Apr. 20, 6:00pm, Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Kennedy School
Student Event
Mohammad Jibran Nasir
, Lawyer, Political Activist, Anchor (formerly Dawn) News, Blogger, Co-founder #HumQadam #PakistanForAll
Cosponsored with the Pakistan Caucus at HKS and South Asian Business Association at HBS
 Building Storeys: An Architect's journey through the Indian landscape
Urbanization Seminar
Brinda Somaya, Architect and Urban Conservationist
Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cosponsored with India GSD
 The Ephemeral City: Looking at Temporary Landscape of Religion in South Asia and Latin America
Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of the Department of Urban Planing and Design (GSD), will moderate a conversation across disciplines about ephemerality in the landscapes of South Asian and Latin American cities. The panel will feature Harvard scholars
Felipe Hernandez (GSD),
Marianne Potvin (FAS), and
Luis Valenzuela (GSD).
Cosponsored with David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
 India's National Security Calculus
 The Future of Capitalism in India
Friday, Apr. 24, 4:00pm - 5:30pm, CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
South Asia Without Borders Seminar Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of History, Boston College Amit Basole, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Boston Discussant: Sanjay G Reddy, Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Academic Director of the India-China Institute, The New School for Social Research Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies Cosponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies and the Harvard US-India Initiative (HUII)
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Video: In case you missed it...
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Attaining Education for All: How do India and China compare?
In this Education Seminar from November 2013, Abhimanyu Singh, UNESCO Beijing, showed that China has made tremendous progress on education over the past decade, whereas India's progress has been relatively slow.
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Harvard University South Asia Institute
CGIS South Building, 4th Floor
1730 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
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