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...distressed that children in the developed world seem to take school for granted and that some show little interest in studying. While we spend our time playing with our gadgets, perhaps we should think about children like Lida in other regions of the world. Jackie Lai Yan-ki, Sai Kung, Hong Kong...
...Meanwhile, the South Asia Initiative (SAI), a faculty consortium founded in 1999 to provide a forum for South Asian scholars across disciplines, does not have the power to appoint faculty or grant degrees. Though SAI has begun to offer grants for study in South Asia, it was only able to fund less than 50 percent of summer grant proposals last year; this despite former President Lawrence H. Summers’ statement that his favorite trip of 2006 was to India: “Every American should visit the country that may be our most important ally two decades from...
...student press, as well as the unanimous endorsement of the Undergraduate Council in November of 2005, the SASI survey and subsequent survey have gone largely ignored. Most of the bill’s recommendations, including increased faculty searches and appointments, as well as student representation in the Sanskrit department, SAI, and Standing Committee for South Asian Studies, remain unfulfilled. Most troubling, however, has been the administration’s failure to provide students with a concrete, time-based action plan for developing South Asian Studies at Harvard...
University President Lawrence H. Summers and Director of the South Asia Initiative (SAI) Sugata Bose spoke on the rise of India and U.S.-India relations at a South Asian Association event last night. Summers discussed the ways India and the U.S. have developed closer ties in recent years, citing President George W. Bush’s work with the Indo-U.S. Treaty. The treaty, which will likely be ratified by Congress, will legitimize India’s nuclear possessions and allow India to increase its supply. “India has first rate scholars, it has the English language...
...Dominguez task force is open to adopting this “modular system” and more integrative approach in setting up these international centers, according to Buffington. While he acknowledges that HBS and SAI agreed last-minute to partner their offices in Mumbai, he says that future centers will have greater “modular” integration and will seek to unite Harvard’s presence abroad...