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About the Southern Asian Institute

Art - Two Female Figures The Southern Asian Institute coordinates the many activities at Columbia University that relate to South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives.) SAI's conferences, seminars, exhibits, films, and lecture series bring together Columbia's tremendous South Asianist faculty and students from widely varying interests and backgrounds. The Institute also has lively ties with the United Nations, the diplomatic community, international agencies, and New York City's South Asian diaspora community (the largest in North America.) In addition, the Institute's outreach activities provide a broad range of resources for K-12 teachers interested in South Asia. For more information about the Southern Asian Institute please click here.

Southern Asian Institute is located on the 11th floor of the International Affairs Building (IAB) at 420 West 118th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive in New York, NY.

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Upcoming Events

Mondays, March 31, April 7 and 14th, The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Southern Asian Institute present:
BILINGUALISM IN (NORTH) INDIAN LITERARY CULTURE AND ITS SOCIAL MEANINGS, CPLS G6180

A mini-seminar led by Visiting Scholar Francesca Orsini, Hindi expert and professor at the School of Oriental Studies, University of London.

Students, please note that you may take the class for credit. Don’t miss this chance to explore India’s rich diversity of language and literary cultures. Class readings will feature sources from Hindi, Urdu, and Persian, and topics for discussion will include bilingualism, multilinguism, translation theory, colonial epistemology, nationalism and communalism.

**The April 14th session will be a public lecture open to the public, and followed by a wine/snack reception.

Readings:
- S.R. Faruqi
- Rushdnama Transcript
- Digby Gangohi
- Varta Parmananddas
- Kanhavat text
- Kanhavat summary

When: Mondays, March 31, April 7 and 14th, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Where: Komoda Seminar Room, HB1-7 Heyman Center

April 12, 2008 Satire in Braj, Urdu, and Hindi: Some Case Studies

The workshop is sponsored by the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required:

Registration Form available at the link above.

Workshop schedule:
10:00-10:30 coffee ~~ 10:30-12:30: Texts
12:30-1:30: lunch ~~ 1:30-3:30: Contexts

STUDY MATERIALS FOR THE WORKSHOP
(copies of selected parts of this material will be made available at the workshop itself and will form the basis of discussion)

WORK IN PROGRESS!

Ab-e hayat (1880) on Sauda: *DSAL*
Annotated translations of some of Sauda's satires, with texts: *Columbia U.*
A satiric *shahr-ashob by Jur'at*, with *commentary by S. R. Faruqi*
A satiric *shahr-ashob by Nazir Akbarabadi*, with *commentary by FWP*

When: Saturday April 12, 2008, 10:30-3:30
Where: Columbia University, School of International Affairs, Room 1134 (enter from 118th St.)

further inquiries: fp7@columbia.edu

April 28, 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series
In a Buddhist World, But Not Of It: the Novels of Martin Wickramasinghe as Vehicles of Buddhist Reflection in Modern Sri Lanka

Professor Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia

Where: Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th floor, SIPA/International Affairs Building

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