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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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Sept 24 - Dec 4, 2008 The British Raj on Film

A film series to accompany the exhibition Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj

Dates: Wednesdays, September 24 through December 4 (no screening November 26)
Time: 6:15pm
Location: Room 832, Schermerhorn Building, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue
October 1 screening: *Mangal Pandey
Director: *Director: Ketan Mehta (2005, 150 minutes)

September 29, 2008 Talk by CSM reporter on Pakistan, the US and the Taliban

PAKISTAN: AN EVOLVING FRONT IN AMERICA'S WAR ON TERROR

Date: Monday, September 29
Time: 6pm-7:30pm

Shahan Mufti will speak about Pakistan's role in the war on terror, and how the country and the United States perceive this role differently in the face of the Taliban insurgency - and how the new political configuration in the country changes anything, if at all.

Mufti is a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor and covered the tumultuous events in Pakistan of 2007 and 2008 for the paper. He has spent over twelve years living in Pakistan and has also written about the country for The Boston Sunday Globe, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. A graduate of the Joint MA Program in Journalism and Near Eastern Studies at New York University, he served as a Fulbright Fellow to India in 2004-05.

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