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...Parimal G. Patil is committed to looking for religion in “all the wrong places.” Patil, assistant professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies and of the study of religion, studies stylized poetry and logic texts in his quest to uncover the intellectual, philosophical, and religious roots of contemporary South Asian religions...
...concentrations offered at the College. Many of them will choose one of the most popular: government, economics, biology, or social studies. But a fraction of undergraduates will go against the tide, picking one of Harvard’s smallest concentrations, such as statistics, folklore and mythology, or Sanskrit and Indian studies.But these more obscure concentrations can propel their members to distant and diverse futures—even if their specificity might raise eyebrows at a cocktail party.INDIA TO ILLINOISHalf a world away, a fuzzy telephone connection between India and Cambridge provides a glimpse into the life of one Harvard graduate...
...student wishing to study South Asia at Harvard today has two primary resources: The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and the South Asia Initiative. The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, however, lacks sufficient faculty resources and has been largely focused upon language study and classical traditions, both of which are essential but insufficient for a well-rounded South Asia program. Despite the availability of a secondary concentration in South Asian Studies and a South Asian Studies track within Sanksrit and Indian Studies, the fact remains that only six undergraduate non-language courses on South Asia are offered this...
...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...
...nearly half a million children suffer from blindness. Many of these cases would have been preventable with the proper medical care, and, says Sinha, "I wanted to help the children get treatment." So with funding from the National Institutes of Health, he launched Project Prakash (it means "light" in Sanskrit), a humanitarian initiative to help expand eye care in India...