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October 16, 2015
This week's news from the South Asia Institute
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Big data in developing countries
"When you have an information or technology asymmetry, you have power divides and imbalances," said Malavika Jayaram, Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, in a SAI webinar on October 13 in which she shared lessons for developing countries using big data.
Read more and watch the webinar.
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 Rebuilding Nepal
SAI's "Nepal - In Memoriam" photo exhibit, currently on display at Harvard, was featured in the Harvard Gazette.
Sales of the photos, which can be purchased online or at the closing reception on October 29, will benefit the Nepal Research and Reconstruction Fund.
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Meet our student coordinators!
SAI is excited to welcome three students from Harvard's Graduate School of Education to assist with SAI programs this year. They bring a diverse set of past experiences to Harvard, from working in bioethics in Pakistan to serving in Teach for India.
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 Understanding Bihar's Election
TODAY, Friday, October 16, 4:00pm - 5:30pm, Bell Hall, Belfer building, Harvard Kennedy School,
79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA
Student Event
Jeffrey Witsoe,
Associate Professor, Union College
Milan Vaishnav
, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Discussants:
Rohit Chandra,
PhD Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Sharan Mamidipudi,
PhD Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Cosponsored with the Harvard Kennedy School India Caucus
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Love, War and Other Longings: Harvard-Brown Pakistani Film Festival
TODAY, Friday, October 16 - Sunday, October 18,
Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Film Festival
Cosponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Brown University Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard Arts and Humanities Division, and the Harvard Pakistan Student Group
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 Knowing Through Others: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge in Classical Indian Philosophy of Religion
Monday, Oct. 19, 5:00pm - 6:30pm, CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
GSA Seminar
Rosanna Picascia,
SAI Graduate Student Associate, PhD candidate in the Study of Religion
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
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Video: In case you missed it...
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Art, Communities, and Museums
In this South Asia Without Borders Seminar from November 2014, S. Mukherjee, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, discussed issues concerning museums in South Asia.
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Upcoming event of interest:
If you have an announcement or event you'd like to share, please email [email protected].
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Harvard University South Asia Institute
CGIS South Building, 4th Floor
1730 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
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