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December 2, 2016
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SAI welcomes India Country Director
SAI is pleased to welcome Sanjay Kumar to the team. Dr. Kumar will lead SAI's activities in India from the Delhi office. Since 1999, Kumar has served as the Director of SEWA Bharat, a labor union of more than 1.7 million poor self-employed women workers in the informal economy in India, and is an alum of Harvard Kennedy School.
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In an article for the Indian Express, Satchit Balsari, HSPH, and Tarun Khanna, SAI/HBS, write that the proposed National e-Health Authority could launch a digital health revolution in India, but safeguards need to be in place to protect patients' privacy. This is in follow up to the recently held Radcliffe Advanced Seminar, "Exchanging Health Information."
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Student voices
Underground banking in Myanmar
Jasmine Chia, Harvard College '18,
started her summer in Myanmar intending to study Vipassana Buddhism, but became fascinated with a different topic: a banking
phenomenon that explains the links between capitalist religion and political engagement.
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Livelihood Creation Profile
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At the edge of innovation
Prantae Solutions, which received a Social Innovation grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation, aims to create affordable technologies for rare and neglected health disorders.
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For a full calendar, please visit our
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Artist Talk: Boys don't cry
Monday, Dec. 5, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, CGIS South, S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Meenakshi Sengupta,
Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program
Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, South and Southeast Asian Art, Harvard University
Lunch will be served.
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Wednesday, Dec. 7. 3:00pm - 4:00pm, 4th Floor, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Harvard faculty, students, fellows, staff, and affiliates are invited to a weekly tea break at SAI's office. Come enjoy chai and snacks and get to know SAI's community. Visiting Artist Meenakshi Sengupta will be leading an interactive art piece.
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Artist talk: Waking Whispers
Thursday, Dec. 8, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, CGIS South, S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Komal Shahid Khan,
Visiting Artist, South Asia Institute Arts Program
Chair:
Susan S. Bean,
Chair, Art & Archaeology Center, American Institute of Indian Studies; Board Member, Textile Society of America; Associate, Peabody Museum, Harvard University; Former Senior Curator for South Asian and Korean Art, Peabody Essex Museum
Lunch will be served.
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Armed Politics: Violence, Order, and the State in Southern Asia
Friday, Dec. 9, 2:00pm - 4:00pm, MIT Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-495, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
Paul Staniland,
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Cosponsored with the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the MIT Center for International Studies
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