South Asia Initiative, Harvard University

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The South Asia Initiative

1730 Cambridge Street

4th Floor

Cambridge, MA 02138

USA

Tel. 617-496-4862

Fax. 617-496-0854

 

Visit the Boston Children's Museum during their upcoming

Diwali Celebration

 

Sunday, October 9, 2011, 11am-4pm
Oil Lamp

Children will be able to make a rangoli, light a diya, and explore the sights, sounds and spirit of the Festival of Lights.

 

For further information or to volunteer for the event, contact:

 

 

Asia Program, Boston Children's Museum

(617) 426-6500 ext. 235 / Asia@BostonChildrensMuseum.org  

Porter Square Books in Cambridge will also be celebrating the holiday with a display of books published by independent publishing house
Tulika, a publisher of childrens' books in India.

 

 


 

 

NEXT Monday: Social Enterprise Seminar Series

Monday, October 3, 2011 - 5:30 pm

Achieving Universal Quality Education in India: Challenges and Opportunities

School Children South Asia

Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego

Chaired by Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

CGIS Knafel, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

  

NEXT Tuesday: Book Talk Series

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 5 pm  

India: A Portrait, Patrick French

Chaired by Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School

CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room S020, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

INDIA Patrick FrenchPakistan books

  

NEXT Wednesday: Pakistan Seminar Series

Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 2:30 - 3:30 pm 

Progressives and 'Perverts': Partition Stories and Pakistan's Future

Kamran Asdar Ali, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Chaired by Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University

CGIS South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge Str., Cambridge, MA

 

Book Talk Series

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 5 pm 

The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, Deborah Baker

Chaired by Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Divnity, Harvard University

CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 

  

For up to date event details, visit our website

Over two days, students, faculty and the community had three opportunities to see Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, eleventh President of India, speak.  Here is just one image taken during his stay, immediately following the Mahindra Lecture Address given on 27 September. 
 

Dr. Kalam with Students
Dr. Kalam with Harvard students. From left, Shalaka Patil, Abhinav Caturvedi, Mariam Chugtai, Erum Khalid Sattar, Naushard Cader, Hassaan Yousuf and Namita Wahi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More pictures, videos, and a transcript of his Mahindra Lecture address will be available at our website early next week.