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

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

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.

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.

UW Art History Professor and South Asia Faculty member Sonal Khullar‘s book Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 (California, 2015), was just awarded the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, given annually by the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. Congratulations to Professor Khullar.

Apply now for fellowships for the 2016-2017 Academic Year and for Summer, 2016. Both graduate students and undergraduates are eligible for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships (details) (application); domestic and international graduate students are eligible for the Frank F. Conlon Fellowship (details) (application).

A two-day symposium on Human Rights and the Politics of Film Making is being hosted by the UW Jackson School’s South Asia Center in conjunction with Tasveer’s 2015 Seattle South Asian Film Festival feauturing notable film makers from South Asia. The symposium will examine issues of human rights and film making in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and

Loritta Ying Ping Chan BA, Economics & South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Originally from Hong Kong, Loritta will begin at UW in the fall to begin her MA in South Asia Studies, where she plans to study Hindi. Having approached development from an economic perspective as an undergraduate, she wants to dwell deeper into