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Arts Council Interim Report 2017-2018

THE LAKSHMI MITTAL SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Arts Council Interim Report 2016-2018

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Front Image by Madhu Das, SAI Visiting Artist 2016-1017

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Friends, Given your longstanding support of South Asian art and your networks within that community, the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute (SAI), Harvard University is fortunate to have you as supporters and advisors. I would love to see more individuals deepen their engagement with Harvard as time goes on.

The opportunity that SAI provides visiting artists and scholars extends well beyond a traditional residency. It is an opportunity to engage with leading scholars and thinkers in almost any discipline of their choosing in deep and authentic ways, and to expand their horizons in directions they might not have imagined before visiting Harvard. The goals are dual — to provide mentorship to visiting scholars and artists, and through a cross-fertilization of ideas, to develop a deeper understanding of South Asia and its artistic traditions, both historical and contemporary.

It is an incredibly exciting time at the Institute! The $25M endowment by the Mittal family has given Harvard an opportunity to expand and deepen its already rich programming related to South Asia. But even before this, Harvard has tremendous in-house expertise - offering over 140 South Asia-related courses!

There is a lot going on with South Asian art at SAI! I invite you to read more about it in this report. Please save May 3 and 4, 2018 on your calendar for the annual meeting of the Arts Council. You will see and hear about the various arts-related programs at SAI and learn more about what the future holds.

Sincerely, Dipti Mathur Chair, Arts Council The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University

ABOUT THE ARTS AT SAI

MISSION Arts at SAI connects South Asia’s artists and curators with Harvard faculty and students to support research that advances the understanding of social, political, cultural and economic issues of the world through art.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM The Arts at SAI program serves as a resource across all disciplines to explore critical issues in South Asia through the lens of art and design.

The Visiting Artist program is funded by members of the Arts Council. These are individuals from across the globe, who are committed to the development and preservation of South Asian arts. The program selects four emerging or mid-career artists from South Asia, who come to SAI and engage with faculty and students through talks, an exhibition, workshops and class visits.

In addition, the Donald T. Regan Fund supports arts-based seminars at Harvard for faculty, students, and the larger community. These discussions are led by artists that have been invited on campus.

The Arts at SAI Program is led by Professor Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University.

GOALS 2018-2020 • • • •

Mid-career visiting artists from across South Asia for a two-month residency at Harvard.

Initial stages of developing a conservation curriculum for South Asian arts with leading art institutions in India with the goal of expanding to other South Asian countries.

Writing and documentation of South Asian arts.

Faculty and student research and travel grants.

2017-2018 • •

Emerging Visiting Artists Program for two weeks at Harvard.

Faculty and student research and travel grants.

2016-2017 • •

Emerging Visiting Artists Program for one week at Harvard.

Faculty and student research and travel grants.

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2016-2018

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ACSAA Symposium organizers Jinah Kim and Laura Weinstein at the opening event at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2017 SAI Symposium Arts Panelists Homi Bhabha, Shahzia Sikander and Shanay Javeri

Students in SW47: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems

For the opening event of the American Council for Southern Asian Arts Symposium (ACSAA), over one hundred scholars attended the panel discussion “Utsava: 100 years of the study of South Asian Art in Boston and in honor of late Pramod Chandra (19302016).”

The Arts panel discussed the symposium’s theme of “Migration and Transformation” in relation to the Visual Arts.

The innovative Harvard course, “SW47: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems,” is led by Tarun Khanna, Director of the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School. This course provides an interdisciplinary framework through which to think about the salient economic and social problems affecting five billion people, the majority, of the developing world. Case study discussions covered challenges and solutions in fields such as arts, health, education, technology, urban planning, and the humanities. This course piloted in 2011 and continues today.

South Asian arts scholar, Pramod Chandra, spearheaded several projects to collect and catalogue Indian art and architecture, which continue to be an invaluable resource to scholars today.

He served as a founding member of ACSAA and its first president (19651972). Chandra was a professor of South Asian Art at Harvard University from 1980 to 2004.

Chairs: Laura Weinstein, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Jinah Kim, Harvard University.

Panelists: Frederick Asher, University of Minnesota; Daniel Ehnbom, University of Virginia; Deborah Klimburg-Salter, University of Vienna/ Harvard University; Alka Patel, University of California, Irvine; and Eugene Wang, Harvard University.

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Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani-born visual artist – trained in Pakistan and New England – who challenges the strict formal tropes of miniature painting as well as its medium-based restrictions by experimenting with scale and media.

She received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2006.

Shanay Javeri, Assistant Curator of South Asian Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he studied art semiotics and history of art.

He completed his doctorate at the Royal College of Art in London, specializing in South Asian art.

Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

“Module 3: Thinking like a Humanist” was led by Professor Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University; Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish, Harvard University.

This module empowered students to think creatively about how arts and culture can be used to change cultural norms, promote social cohesion, and ultimately improve economic development.

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AY 2017-18 SAI VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM Imran Channa, Pakistan

Rajyashri Goody, India

Find The Real Jinnah, 2008 Digital print on paper, 7 x 11 ft, edition 1/5

Skyscape, 2015 Installation, found footwear 300L x 300W cm

Imran Channa is an artist based in Pakistan. His practice deals with interrogating the intersections between power and knowledge. His primary focus is on how historical narratives and events are documented and disseminated.

He explores how these narratives can be fabricated, and how that fabrication can override our collective memory to shape individual and social consciousness and alter human responses. His work draws attention to the ingredients required for the process of documentation, highlighting how history is recorded, framed and manufactured via modes such as photography, archeology and literature. Channa is interested in how these modes are instrumentalized in the perversion of knowledge and the construction of consciousness.

Rajyashri Goody is an installation artist from the UK and based in Pune, India. Her practice revolves around the complexities of Dalit identity seen through the lens of larger social, political, economic and religious structures at play. Currently, she is exploring the strengthening voice of everyday Dalit resistance historically and in current times, through the politics of food, memory, writing, and reusing and recycling as an act of resistance.

During her time at Harvard, Goody will be mentored by Professor Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard University.

During his time at Harvard, Channa will be mentored by Professor Jennifer Leaning, Franรงois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.

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AY 2017-18 SAI VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM Kabi Raj Lama, Nepal

Faiham Ebna Sharif, Bangladesh

Irritating Machine, 2016 Mixed Media, Variable Size

Tea Plucker, 2017 Digital Photography, Ration 2:3--Story of Modern Day Bonded Labor: Bangladesh Tea Garden Workers

Kabi Raj Lama is an artist from Nepal who creates woodcut prints. During his time at Harvard, Raj Lama would like to create a series of woodcut prints using the foundation of the ongoing reconstruction of cultural sites in Kathmandu as well as his research on flood victims in New England.

Faiham Ebna Sharif is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. During his time at Harvard, Sharif will collect archival documents on tea trade in South Asia using Harvard’s library, museum and other available resources.

He will investigate how the Opium War and freight service to America influenced the global tea trade in the nineteenth century.

During his time at Harvard, Raj Lama wishes to work with student-volunteers to create the prints using wooden boards and artisanal paper brought from Nepal.

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During his time at Harvard, he would like to organize an open seminar that will discuss how anthropological research can produce an artistic output in a new form.

How should researchers trace back whitewashed history?

A potential Harvard mentor for Sharif is Lucien CastaingTaylor, Professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology, Harvard University.

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FACULTY GRANTS American Council for Southern Asian Arts Symposium, Harvard University

The Dhaka Arts Summit

“Between: Agencies, Objects and Architecture” Panel at ACSAA Symposium with Qaman Adamjee, Marika Sardar, Mary Beth Heston and Atreyee Gupta

Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

120 people attended over four days of The American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) symposium at Harvard University. The symposium was a combination of rich sessions on South Asian Art and visits to Boston and Cambridge museums. It was also an opportunity for colleagues to meet, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share current research in the field.

Professor Sugata Bose will be on two panel discussions at the Dhaka Arts Summit (DAS) in February 2018.

Panelists explored new methodological directions. Several papers took interdisciplinary approaches and excavated new historical meaning with clear historiographical awareness.

The ACSAA Symposium was organized by SAI in conjunction with Professor Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, and Laura Weinstein, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), with the generous support of the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Harvard Art Museums; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Asia Center, Harvard University; The Committee for the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities; and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities.

The first panel is titled “Rising Oceans and Conflict: From Bangladesh to Planetary Scale.” This panel brings together artists, architects and curators to locate Bangladesh and the rising waters of the world’s oceans at the frontier of global climate change. The panel will explore the agency of cross-disciplinary research on oceans and investigative tools of forensic architecture for gathering and presenting evidence on environmental destruction.

The second panel is titled “Diving deeper into Bangladesh, the Oceans, the Pacific, and Forms of Justice.” This discussion between artist, architect, academic, politician, and curator draws links between environmental and political violence connected to the exhibition “A Beast, A God, and A Line” and artist Nabil Ahmed’s research on Bangladesh and the Pacific.

DAS is an international, non-commercial research and exhibition platform for art and architecture related to South Asia.

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years, serving senior scholars to graduate students, to gather and share knowledge on South Asian arts.

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ART SEMINARS (FUNDED BY THE DONALD T. REGAN FUND) Qissebaazi

In Silence, The Secret Speaks

Qissebaazi with Danish Husain, September 21, 2017

Seema Kohli reading her poetry In Silence, The Secret Speaks, October 23, 2017

Danish Husain is a poet, actor, filmmaker and theatre director interested in Dastangoi, the lost art form of Urdu storytelling.

Seema Kohli merged storytelling into her artist talk by reading poetic reflections of her practice written on a scroll. As she spoke, a slide show played over 200 images of her art pieces. The art included drawings, paintings, installations and sculptures that she has created over the past several decades.

The seminar began with a history of Urdu storytelling and Qissebazzi, the storytelling structure that Husain invented. It builds upon traditional storytelling as a way to revive interest in various languages and stories. Husain’s performance captivated the multi-generational audience.

Husain gathered the audience in a circle as he recited the story of “Horshruba: The Land and the Tilismin” in Urdu, Hindi and English.

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Love is at the core of Seema’s practice, which uses repeating motifs of human bodies and lotus blossoms.

Her art celebrates the lost feminine narrative and engages with a wide circuit of references like religious iconography, world mythology, philosophy and literature. Appropriating ancient Indian iconography and philosophy, she chronicles ancient myths and mythological figures to explore the relationship of the self with the spiritual cosmos. Kohli’s lecture was chaired by Professor Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health.

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ART SEMINARS (FUNDED BY THE DONALD T. REGAN FUND) Lecture on Kudiyattam Theater

Southern Lights: Art History and Postcolonial Modernism

David Shulman Speaking about Kudiyattam Theater, November 8, 2017

Professor Sonal Khullar at Southern Lights: Art History and Postcolonial Modernism, November 30, 2017

Kudiyattam is the last living performance tradition of Sanskrit theater in the world. Professor David Shulman, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University, discussed the long, rich history of Kudiyattam in the South Indian state of Kerala, and how the tradition is practiced in the present day. He provided the historical context for the Kudiyattam performance at Harvard, and examined the complex stage dynamics that audience members could look for, such as the interactions between the drummers and actors.

In her seminar, Sonal Khullar explored post-colonial museum practices in the display of South Asian Art, using the 2017 Documenta exhibition of Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil as a case study. In the Documenta exhibition, Sher Gil’s work was exhibited alongside that of American filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961), presumably to highlight affinities in their feminism, primitivism, and cosmopolitanism. This seminar was chaired by Professor Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University.

The seminar was followed by a special workshop and performance of Kudiyattam, by the troupe Nepathya from central Kerala in South India.

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AY 2016-17 SAI VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM Komal Shahid Khan, Pakistan

Madhu Das, India

Pearl Gouache, Gold and Gold—tinted Leaf on Wasli

Three Views of Mapping Huge Cloud

Komal Khan is a visual artist based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

She graduated from the University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 2012 and holds a Masters in Fine Arts from Fatima Jinnah Women University in Rawalpindi, Pakistan with a specialization in miniature painting. Since graduating, she started her career with group shows in art galleries in Islamabad/Rawalpindi, then moving on to Lahore and Karachi. She is presently teaching at the National College of Arts Rawalpindi, Pakistan, as a lecturer. October 2016 marked her first solo exhibition, titled “Imaged Immortals” in Karachi, Pakistan.

Madhu Das is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Mumbai, India. His artistic practice is primarily concerned with the projection of identity onto the social and natural world, in a way that the two are woven together in the Indian space (both mythic space and actual). It explores both conceptual and material sensibilities through a range of media including drawing and painting, photography, performance, video, site-specific interventions, collaborative community projects and interactive/performative installations.

During her visit at Harvard, Khan delivered a public seminar based on her work. Khan’s seminar “Waking Whispers” was chaired by Susan Bean, Independent Scholar and Chair of the Art & Archaeology Center at the American Institute of Indian Studies. Khan’s seminar touched upon how her recent work is based upon what she calls “poetics of masquerade” in which the painted narratives are timeless and familiar.

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Das received his Master of Arts (Painting) from S N School of Fine Arts and Communication, Central University of Hyderabad, India in 2013 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from College of Fine Art, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, India in 2009.

In addition to visiting undergraduate courses, Das delivered a seminar “Landscape of Abstraction,” chaired by Susan Bean.

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AY 2016-17 SAI Visiting Artists Program Meenakshi Sengupta, India

Rabindra Shrestha, Nepal

Lady with a Red Rose, 2015 Gouache on Wasli Y.O. P.

Part of the No War: We are all Connected

Meenakshi Sengupta is a visual artist, based in Kolkata, India. She holds a B.V.A. 2011 (Painting), from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India and a M.F.A. 2013 (Painting) with distinction (Gold Medal), from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India.

In her work, she uses traditional pictorial representation to push formal and aesthetic conventions producing new meaning by using wit and irony to explore gender identity and complexities in contemporary life.

Rabindra Shrestha is a Nepalese visual artist. Installation, detail pen and ink drawing, painting, traditional painting (Paubha), illustration, cartoon, and ceramic art are the different media of his visual expressions. Many people refer to him as a “Line Artist.” Shrestha’s work has been exhibited throughout the National Fine Art exhibition, KochiMuzirise Biennale 2014, India, and Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh. He secured the National Special Award (NAFA) from National Academy of Fine Arts, and was a winner of the US Embassy Art Competition, Nepal.

Sengupta shared her work through the seminar “Boys Don’t Cry,” chaired by Professor Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. This talk focused on the celebration of womanhood and how Sengupta came to this work. She spoke about her practice and how she developed her language primarily surrounded by conventional art practice.

During his time at Harvard, Shrestha held an interactive exhibition, titled “No War: We are all Connected,” where he created line drawings of the fingerprints of exhibition guests. He delivered a seminar, chaired by Professor Jinah Kim, to speak about the significance of his work in reflecting the uniqueness of individuals (represented by the fingerprints) as well as the similarities that bond us together.

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AY 2016-17 SAI Visiting Artists Program Visting Artists in the Classroom

Sengupta (right) at her seminar “Boys Don’t Cry”

Das (right) with Susan Bean, Jinah Kim, and a guest at his seminar “Landscape of Abstraction”

Sengupta and Khan visited several undergraduate classes where they were invited to speak about their work and engage with students.

Das, along with Rabindra Shrestha, attended several undergraduate classes and both shared their work with the students.

Courses included: • “History and Sexuality in the Modern West” taught by Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University.

• “Comparative Politics of Gender Inequality” taught

by Ana Catalano Weeks, College Fellow in the Government Department, Harvard University.

• “Gender and the Making of Modern South Asia,” taught by Catherine Warner, College Fellow in the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University.

• “Leaning in, Hooking up: Visions of Feminism and Femininity in the 21st Century” taught by Phyllis Thompson, Lecturer on Studies on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.

Courses included: • “Himalayan Art,” taught by Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture South and Southeast Asian, Harvard University.

• “Appearance and Reality” by Professor John Bengson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University.

• “Capitalism and Cosmology in Modern India” taught

by Professor Shankar Ramaswami, Lecturer on South Asian Studies, Harvard University.

• “Cultural Psychology: Diverse Identities in the US and Beyond” taught by Sasha Kimel, Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow of Psychology, Harvard University.

Both Sengupta and Khan were also invited to the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies for an informal gathering with concentrators and affiliates.

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STUDENT GRANTS Rachel Parikh

Rachel Parikh, Calderwood Fellow, Harvard Art Museums

Elephant Tusk Swords at Royal Armouries, Leeds

In addition to the Visiting Artist Program, the Arts Fund supported the research travel of Rachel Parikh, Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums.

Parikh worked in the British Library, looking at a sixteenth century manuscript, the “Akbarnama” (Memoirs of Akbar).

The Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) commissioned his multi-volume memoir to not only document his reign, but also document the cultures, languages, religions, customs, art, and societal practices of those who fell under his rule.

The copy of the “Akbarnama” at the British Library is the only one to have an illustrated section on Indian arms and armor. It is a valuable primary source that reveals what types of objects were popular in India during the sixteenth century, as well as how and why they were used.

The SAI Travel Fund supported Rachel’s trip to the United Kingdom to conduct research for her book on South Asian arms and armor, “The Power of Protection: The Material Culture of South Asian Arms and Armor.” The book will serve as the first foundational text on the subject of South Asian arms and armor. The genre has been greatly overshadowed by other aspects of South Asian visual and material culture.

Additionally, the limited scholarship, provided mostly by collectors and dealers of the material, has perpetuated misinterpretations, unfounded biases, and myths regarding the construction, function, and purpose of these objects.

Compounding the study of the material is the general misconception that arms and armor were only intended for battle and conjure the notion of violence and conflict. Her book aims to address these issues through thoughtful, indepth research. From different contexts, it will demonstrate that these objects served many purposes that go beyond the battlefield. A chapter of Parikh’s book is dedicated to the use of edged weapons as ceremonial objects and as fashion and accessories under the Mughals and Rajputs.

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AY 2015-16 SAI VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM Ranjit Kandalgoankar, India

Basir Mahmood, Pakistan

Ranjit Kandalgoankar showing his work to Rahul Mehrotra

Basir Mahmood presenting in Doris’ class

Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s art practice focuses primarily on unseen or ignored processes of urbanization. During his time at Harvard, Ranjit visited Sunil Amrith’s, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, class on “Environmental History of South Asia.” Of his visit, Professor Amrith noted, “(Ranjit) provided the students with a fascinating glimpse of how he works with historical materials and archives in creating his art, and focused in particular on the ways in which his art engages with themes of environmental history. Feedback from the students was very positive. They clearly appreciated the opportunity to explore the subject from a completely different perspective, and many of our class discussions in later weeks returned to the inspiration of Ranjit’s visit – which clearly sparked many ideas among the students, including by making them think about how to integrate visual materials more fully into their projects.”

Using video, film and photographs, Basir Mahmood’s work weaves together various threads of thoughts, findings and insights into poetic sequences, building various forms of narratives.

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In collaboration with the Harvard College Pakistan Association, Basir hosted a workshop titled “A Memory, a Monument, a Material,” in which he encouraged students to collect and recollect memories through a brainstorming session. The students found that, though their backgrounds varied, words like ‘home,’ ‘school,’ and ‘time’ invoked similar memories and thoughts.

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AY 2015-16 SAI VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM Paribartana Mohanty, India

Milan Rai, Nepal

Presentation to a class at Harvard by Paribartana Mohanty

Art installation by Milan Rai at Harvard

“Act the Victim” is based on a simple invitation to ‘act’ as victim, consciously positioning people in the discomforts of victim-hood and open associations with crisis. “Act the Victim” is an apparatus, a play, which at any given moment responds to the immediate.

Milan Rai’s “White Butterfly” project is a personal art installation that has grown to have a global outreach for different community causes and concerns. It is a demonstration of how the role of art can take different turns when shared across social media, connecting people and communities to effect social change and awareness.

Particularly, Milan has used his “White Butterfly” project to support the response after Nepal’s devastating earthquake in 2015.

The process makes visible the sets of heterogeneous forces/structures (institutions, police, philosophical propositions, art and culture, behavior, the social, political and so on) that intersect and surface via an individual, group or community.

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During his visit to Harvard, Milan engaged with Harvard for Nepal, a student group that was formed to unite Harvard’s response after the 2015 earthquake. Thousands of white butterflies were installed across Harvard campus and Milan invited the community to write its wishes on the wings of each butterfly. “Wishes become most powerful when we expect nothing in return and thus I invite people to come forth in togetherness, and make their wish by simply sprawling on white paper butterflies, the dreamiest wishes that appear to be baseless in real life but are capable of moving the foundation of our reality,” wrote Milan of his exhibition.

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BUDGET

JULY 1, 2017 - JANUARY 30, 2018

JULY 1, 2015 -JUNE 30, 2016

INCOME

INCOME

Art Advisory Payments + Annual Interest

$90,000

Arts Advisory Payments

$40,000

Art Advisory Balance Forward

$81,658

Harvard Regan Fund Grant

$35,883

Harvard Regan Fund Grant Balance Forward Harvard Regan Fund Income TOTAL

-$943 $5,000

SAI General Funds TOTAL

$9,367 $85,250

$175,715 EXPENSES

EXPENSE Visiting Artists Stipend + Travel + Honoraria Events + Seminars

$38,000 $9,000

In-Region Workshops + Programs

$27,000

Administration + Supplies

$20,700

TOTAL

$94,700

BALANCE

$81,015

Visiting Artists Stipend + Travel + Honoraria

$2,659

Art Consultant Fee + Travel

$9,114

Events + Seminars Administration

$26,338 $1,458

TOTAL

$39,569

BALANCE

$45,681

JULY 1, 2016 -JUNE 30, 2017 INCOME Art Advisory Payments + Annual Interest

$60,082

Art Advisory Balance Forward

$35,821

Harvard Regan Fund Grant Balance Forward TOTAL

$9,860 $105,763

EXPENSES Visiting Artists Stipend + Events + Travel + Honoraria $20,255 $4,794 Administration TOTAL

$25,049

BALANCE

$80,715

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THE LAKSHMI MITTAL SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION Cambridge: Tarun Khanna, Director Meena Hewett, Executive Director Abanish Rizal, Assistant Director Jee Soo Kang, Programs Coordinator Amy Johnson, Communications Coordinator Hasit Shah, Communications Affiliate

STEERING COMMITTEE

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, FAS; Director, AISP

Syed Babar Ali, (AMP ’73)

Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS; Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

In Region: Sanjay Kumar, India Country Director

Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, HLS; Adjunct Lecturer, HKS

Mariam Chughtai, Pakistan Programs Director Pukar Malla, Nepal Programs Director

David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, HSPH Nicholas Burns, Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, HKS; Director, Future of Diplomacy Project, HKS Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS; Affiliated Professor, GSD; International Coordinator, WIEGO Network Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, FAS; Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS Tarun Khanna, Director of the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, HBS

KP Balaraj, (MBA ’97) Sumir Chadha, (MBA ’97) Purandar and Kuntala Das, (PA; New York) Mark Fuller, (AB ’75, MBA ’78, JD ’79) and Jo Froman (Cambridge, MA) Meera Gandhi, (New York) Vikram Gandhi, (MBA ’89, ExEd ’00) Mala Haarmann, (AB ’91, MBA ’96) Anuradha and Anand Mahindra, (AB ’77, MBA ’81) Karen, (AB ’82) and Sanjeev Mehra, (AB ’82, MBA ’86) Victor Menezes, (PA; New York) Arif Naqvi, (Dubai) Chandrika and Dalip Pathak, (NH; London) Chandni (New York) and Mukesh Prasad, (AB ’93) Sribala Subramanian and Arvind Raghunathan (NH; New York) Rajiv and Anupa Sahney, (Mumbai)

Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture, FAS

Parul (Kolkata) and Gaurav Swarup, (MBA ’80)

Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development, HKS

Arshad Zakaria, (AB ’85, MBA ’87)

Tom Varkey (MBA ’97; New York)

Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design, GSD Venkatesh Murthy, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS

ARTS COUNCIL Faculty Director: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture, FAS

Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS; Chair, DSAS

Chair: Dipti Mathur, (USA)

Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH

Poonam Bhagat, (Mumbai, India)

Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education; Director, International Education Policy Program, HGSE Kristen Stilt, Professor of Law, HLS; Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program, HLS

Arts Program Advisor: Shanay Javeri, (USA) Anurag Bhargava, (New York and Delhi, India) Radhika Chopra, (New Delhi, India) Aparajita and Gaurav Jain, (Delhi, India) Chandrika Pathak, (London, UK) Sanjay and Pinky Reddy, (India) Omar Saeed, (Pakistan) Sana Rezwan Sait, (New York) Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani, (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Osman Khalid Waheed, (Karachi, Pakistan)

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