Registration for fall quarter is the time to start your future by signing up for South Asian language courses! There are great opportunities to learn Bengali (more than 200 million speakers), Hindi (almost 500 million speakers), Urdu (99 million speakers), and Sanskrit. Registration opens May 6th! Studying South Asian languages also opens up opportunities to

UW announces a special opportunity to apply to the South Asian Studies Master’s Degree Program for autumn, 2016 admission. The application deadline is June 1, 2016. Three reasons to study South Asia at UW: First, the excellence and breadth of our faculty and the interdisciplinarity of our program. In addition to graduate courses and intensive language

Christian Novetzke talks about his new book (co-authored with Andy Rotman and Will Elison) “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood and The Nation” (Harvard University Press, 2016). “This isn’t so much a book about a Bollywood film as it is about the Bollywood film. We were inspired by the hunch (or maybe wild assertion) that Amar

On Friday, February 26th 2015, the South Asia Center (Jackson School of International Studies) and Global Business Center (Foster School of Business) hosted a three-hour symposium. Panelists were experts from the government, academia and industry. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. Sunila S. Kale, Director of the South Asia Center. She highlighted the Center’s

UW South Asia alumna Hannah Haegeland, currently a a Scoville Peace Fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., has two new pieces, one in Foreign Policy and one in Foreign Affairs: “India’s Nuclear Dangers” Foreign Policy, 31 March 2016, “Facing Armageddon in South Asia”Foreign Affairs, 1 April 2016.

This course examines current and past hot topics and texts (e.g., India and Pakistan’s shared history and wars, terrorism, Iraq War, Iran’s nuclear controversy, 1979 Iranian Revolution, the israeli and Palestinian conflict, poetry as the language of protest) that have shaped India, Pakistan and the Middle East. Instructor: Khodadad Kaviani Spring, 2016, SLN 20836, Saturdays 9:00-2:30

South Asia MA Alum Nick Gottschall recently worked with the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) to profile Jazz Musician Aakash Mittal as he studied and toured India as an AIIS fellow. See the video below: AIIS is currently accepting applications to the same Fellowship program Aakash Mittal participated in.

Study in India in Fall, 2016. Applications are now open for Explore India’s Himalaya—Yoga, Culture, Politics, Environment

Professors Sunila S. Kale and Christian L. Novetzke have written an article on the intersection of Yoga and Politics, in the form of ‘political theology’, which has been published in The Wire. Professors Kale and Novetke are currently working on a book about this very topic, due out in 2018. Read the article here.

I want to tell you a little about the activities of the South Asia Center and to ask for your support. Among the many events that we’ve hosted recently, several stand out for engaging students and the larger South Asian community and helping to connect and enrich these two worlds. Following several months after the Voices of Partition event