Harvard launches HQ in Delhi

Hyderabad: Harvard University on Friday officially opened its India headquarters, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute (SAI) in NewDelhi. This marks the beginning of a new era of Harvard engagement with the region, committing additional major resources to the study of South Asia, which will permit students and faculty alike to deepen their research and gain invaluable new insights and experience.

 Throughout 2018 and beyond, leading scholars from South Asia-related fields will be delivering a series of free public lectures in Delhi. Currently, SAI is running various programmes/research projects in India, which include the Boston Bengaluru Bioscience Beginnings funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India; Social Entrepreneurship in India: Multidisciplinary Approach to Innovative Social Enterprises, and the ‘Looking Back, Informing the Future: the 1947 Partition of British India’; the Crossroads Emerging Leaders Programme etc.

Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University, said, “Harvard is extremely pleased and proud to open this office in Delhi, first in the capital. Birthplace of a great and ancient civilization, and home to a remarkable diversity of peoples, religions, languages, and cultures, India is well known as the world’s largest democracy and one of its fastest developing economies. 

Harvard scholars have long held a strong interest in India’s past and present, and we are confident that the New Delhi office will help us to further develop our strengths in this area and ensure that Harvard remains among the very best Universities where the study of India may be pursued.”