Category : India
May 16, 2024 | Blog, Community, In Region, India, News
As the summer approaches, the Mittal Institute extends a warm invitation to Harvard’s community to visit the New Delhi Office. Whether using the office space to conduct research, participating in scholarly discussions, or immersing oneself in the vibrant academic milieu of the region, the office offers a unique opportunity to engage with South Asia’s rich cultural heritage and scholarly legacy. The office has planned several events that will connect Harvard with India’s intellectual scene. Come and be a part of it!
May 14, 2024 | Announcements, Climate, In Region, India, News
Biraj Patnaik, Executive Director of the National Foundation for India, speaks at the workshop “Adaptation to Climate Change in South Asia and West Africa” at Harvard in November 2023. In this third installment of a new interview series with Mittal Institute’s...
May 8, 2024 | Announcements, In Region, India, News, Students
This winter, Aisha Kokan ’26 was awarded a Mittal Institute student grant to complete research in Chennai, India. Her project, Body Image & Eating Disorders: Enduring Legacies of Historical Trauma on Women in Tamil Nadu, India, explored mental health...
Apr 30, 2024 | Community, Faculty, India, News, Students
A group photo of the HUM SAB EK curatorial team, panel speakers, and Mittal Institute affiliates. The HUM SAB EK (We Are One) exhibition, hosted by the Mittal Institute, was successfully launched on April 15, 2024, at CGIS South in Cambridge. The opening event...
Apr 22, 2024 | Announcements, Climate, India, News
Dr. Bharat Vatwani, one of the speakers at LMSAI’s Annual Cambridge Symposium: Science and Technology – the Future of South Asia, is a psychiatrist based in Mumbai who has dedicated much of his professional career to aiding the mentally ill. Together with his wife, Dr. Smitha, he founded Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation in 1988, an NGO dedicated to treating mentally ill and unhoused individuals in India. He shared more about his life’s work in the Q&A below, and previewed what attendees can expect at his fireside chat.
Apr 10, 2024 | Announcements, COVID-19, India, News, Students
The multimedia exhibition HUM SAB EK (We Are One) launched this past week at CGIS South (read an interview with project leader Dr. Satchit Balsari here). Ahead of the April 15 Opening Reception, we spoke with some of the students who volunteered their time to make this exhibition a reality. Few had prior experience bringing an exhibit to life, yet they all pitched in to make it a reality. They hail from departments and schools across Harvard, with a variety of academic backgrounds and interests. Together they created something powerful, and look forward to bringing their immersive show to sites around the U.S. in in South Asia.
Apr 9, 2024 | Announcements, India, News
Vellai Mozhi – Frankly Speaking is a powerful first-person account of a hijra-thirunangai-transfeminine experience in southern India. A. Revathi enacts her life as a Tamil trans woman, stringing stories about finding community, navigating family relationships, encountering violence, building solidarities, finding and losing love, and discovering the joys of writing and performing. A. Revathi previewed the upcoming April 18 event for us in a Q&A.
Apr 3, 2024 | Announcements, India, News, Students
April 15 will mark the launch of a new multi-media exhibition on the Harvard campus, titled HUM SAB EK (We Are One). The project leader is Dr. Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and LMSAI Steering Committee member. In this Q+A, Satchit Balsari talks about the ideation of the exhibition, what difficulties the curatorial team came across, and the lessons that public health can learn from poor working women in India.
Mar 27, 2024 | Announcements, India, News
The Mittal Institute presents a virtual exhibition titled “Crossing Many Seas,” featuring Sudipta Das and Ishita Chakraborty, two alumni of the Visiting Artist Fellowship (VAF) program. Through their works, the artists delve into the complexities of human migration, emphasizing the interconnectedness of diverse experiences across geographical boundaries. Despite this commonality, each artist explores a wider spectrum of human experiences in a world affected by shifting political and economic circumstances and the devastation caused by climate change. The exhibit will be live until April 30, 2024.
Mar 19, 2024 | Alumni, Announcements, Arts Program, India, News
Aman Kaleem, former Mittal Institute Visiting Artist Fellow, has returned to Harvard from her hometown of New Delhi, India, to earn a Master in Design Engineering from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied...
Mar 13, 2024 | Announcements, Faculty, In Region, India, News, South Asia in the News
Sugata Bose (from left), Sandipto Dasgupta, Sushant Singh, and Raheel Dhattiwala shared expert insights on the upcoming general election in India, kicking off the “India Votes” series. By Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer. Social scientists discuss controversial...
Mar 5, 2024 | Announcements, In Region, India, News, Students
This February a group of Harvard Graduate School of Design students set out for Mumbai to explore urbanism in one of the world’s most crowded cities as part of the “Extreme Urbanism 9: Imagining Housing as Urban Form” course at the Graduate School of Design. Harish Krishnamoorthy (MAUD ’25) is an urban designer and architect from Bengaluru, India is a student in and teaching assistant for the studio, led by Rahul Mehrotra, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Harish kept a travelogue of his experience, which he shares with the Mittal Institute below.
