The South Asia Center is a proud sponsor of the Seattle International Film Festival. This year the Center is sponsoring a film from Sri Lanka titled House of My Fathers. In addition, two other South Asia films will screen at this year’s SIFF. They are The Sweet Requiem, and Widow of Silence. Find more details

2019 Award Winners The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art by Barb Rosenstock; illustrated by Claire A. Nivola (Candlewick Press, 2018). In 1947, Nek Chand began building a Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India, using natural and discarded manmade materials, including broken glass, porcelain from chipped sinks, old bicycles and

Professor Jennifer Dubrow’s new monograph, Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literature in Colonial South Asia, is receiving rave reviews across the pond. Jennifer’s work looks at the development of Urdu literary culture as a contemporary rejoinder to a complex milieu of intercultural influences in North India.  Her disquisition highlights the intersection of colonial

The South Asia Center at the University of Washington expresses its deepest sympathies for those who lost their lives and all the families affected by the bombings on Easter morning in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa. We are deeply saddened and troubled by the events in Sri Lanka. It remains important during these moments of shock

Anita Harker is a sociologist at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Washington. Harker received an Asian Studies Development Grant from the Jackson School to develop and teach a new course on Nepal. She traveled to Nepal in 2018 to gain a fresh perspective on the country as she prepared the new course; below are her

On Saturday, November 17th , 2018, the South Asia center hosted a symposium called Jugalbandi [Duet]: Power and Pleasure in Indian Painting. Sonal Khullar aptly began the evening with a detailed introduction informing the audience about the ways which the esteemed guest presenters have contributed to the critical analysis of Rajput and Mughal painting. To

The Kumaon region of Uttarakhand borders Nepal and is in India’s central Himalayas. On October 29th 2018, Radhika Govindrajan read excerpts from her book Animal Intimacies, which lays out the ethnographic work she conducted in the area’s mountain villages and explores the nuances of animal-human relationships in the region. Govindrajan gripped the audience from the

Conscience, Community & Citizenship: Religious Pluralism in an Age of Religious Nationalism Date: Tue Oct 9, 2018, 9:00am – 4:00pm Location: The Aspen Institute, 2300 N Street NW, Washington, DC Live stream: ZOOM Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://aspeninst.zoom.us/j/281229569 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16468769923, 281229569# or +16699006833, 281229569# Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality,

From September 28th through October 7th, Seattle has the privilege of hosting one of the largest South Asian film festivals in the country.  Now in its 13th year, Tasveer draws films and film makers from around the world. Pakistan will be the featured region this year, along with the theme #KnowMe. The South Asia Center

On July 23rd and 24th a workshop on ‘Rural Urban Entanglements in India’ took place on the University of Hyderabad campus. Organized by University of Washington professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Priti Ramamurthy and University of Hyderabad professor Purendra Prasad, the workshop brought together graduate students and practicing scholars from India, France, and