The South Asia Center’s graduate assistant conducted an interview with Kavita Dattani, who assumed the role of Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in the autumn of 2023. Explore further to gain insights into Professor Dattani’s compelling academic journey. GA:  To begin with, I am

This year’s annual South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) was held on May 5–6, 2023, by the South Asia Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Founded in 1966 by an interdisciplinary group of colleagues from UW and the University of British Columbia, SACPAN is today a

The South Asia section of UW Libraries received a rare gift of 416 slides of Chandayan Manuscript offered by Dr Naseem Hines. These slides came from the John Ryland Museum in Manchester, U.K. Cāndāyan is the very first masnavī composed in Awadhi, the regional language of the eastern Gangetic plains. The story of Cāndāyan is

The South Asia of UW Libraries, in collaboration with Special Collections, digitized a portion of a very special Odissi dance collection, offered to UW Libraries by Dr. Ratna Roy and  David J Capers. Deepa Banerjee, the South Asian Studies Librarian, secured UW Libraries’ Allen Opportunity grant to get this project rolling. About the Collection Dr

Recently, the South Asia Center graduate assistant interviewed Kuldeep Singh, who joined the University of Washington in the Fall of 2022 as a Full-Time Lecturer of Painting & Drawing. Prior to this work, he taught at Delhi University and the University of Iowa. He has also been a guest critic at NYU and Rhode Island

Throughout time the degrees and forms of human rights violations have changed but art and culture have always been used as significant tools to demonstrate the resistance to such violations all over the world. The course “Human Rights and Resistance: A Case of South Asia” (BIS 466), offered at UW-Bothell in autumn 2022, examines the

KHABAR LAHARIYA’ OR ‘WRITING WITH FIRE’: WHOSE STORY IT REALLY IS? On October 22, 2022, UW graduate student Anjali Yadav (Asian Languages & Literature) organized a panel at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Panel discussed the Oscar nominated documentary ‘Writing with Fire’ which depicts the journey of women