SAI offers ‘feet on the street’ experience
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Institute (SAI) has continued the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia. Learning from South Asia and contributing to its development have become vital given the salience of the region in contemporary times. Under the leadership of Tarun Khanna, faculty director of SAI and the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), the institute has forged links and synergies across Harvard’s Schools and within South Asia, creating a nexus for interdisciplinary scholarship with shared aspirations to build the leading center of expertise on South Asia. This year, SAI has hosted more than 33 seminar series focusing on topics related to global health, Muslim societies in South Asia, social enterprise, urbanization, water, and climate change. Additionally, SAI convened “Mapping the Kumbh Mela,” a multidisciplinary research project to study the religious festival. In January, a team of 50 faculty, students, and...