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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
Email. sainit@fas.harvard.edu
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge is celebrating the Diwali holiday with a display of books published by independent publishing house
Tulika, a publisher of childrens' books in India.
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Upcoming SAI Events:
Friday, October 14th from 3 to 4:30pm
Join us at tomorrow's open house to hear from Summer 2011 grant recepients and to learn about opportunities for Summer 2012 internships. Open to both undergraduate and qualifying (returning to school in Fall 2012) graduate students.
View the full agenda on our website. |
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Science Technology Environment and Medicine Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 4 pm
Project Prakash: Combining Service and Science
Pawan Sinha, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Chair: Venkatesh Murthy, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room S020, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA |
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Friday, October 21, 2011 - 6 pm
The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism
Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Chair: Hiteshkumar M. Hathi, Producer, NPR's 'Here and Now'
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA |
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Wednesday, October 13th's Water as a Platform for Development: A Student Panel from a Summer in Pakistan.
 | | Students Laila Kasuri, Anjali Lohani, Erum Khalid Sattar, and Hassaan Yousuf presented their work. |
See the video of this event here. Introduced by Prof. John Briscoe, under whose direction they worked this past summer in Pakistan, the students outlined their internship experiences and what they learned about the difficulties facing the use and management in all sectors on the largest federal waterway system in the world, the Indus River in Pakistan. |
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam at Harvard
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India, was the distinguished guest for South Asia Initiative's Annual Harish C. Mahindra lecture on September 27, 2011. During his presentation titled "Empowering 3 Billion," he spoke about his Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) Initiative. He highlighted the ongoing need for 'creative leadership' from people with 'righteous heart' who 'lead by example' as essential to the empowerment of these three billion across the globe. Images, transcript of his talk, and video are available at our website.
 
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