Welcome to this exciting year of major public lectures, cultural events, academic conferences, media, and other explorations of India and its dramatic rise on the world stage. During the academic year 2009-2010, the Year of India aims to advance the understanding of India's people, culture, economy, and politics - and their growing impact around the world.

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News

In Today's World, What Would Gandhi Do?

11/16/09: In a lecture yesterday afternoon, Rajmohan Gandhi, a leading public intellectual and the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, drew on the parallels between his grandfather and Martin Luther King, Jr., and also illustrated ways in which today's conflicts could be addressed by nonviolent means. Among these means are far wider and more serious dialogues among various cultures and countries, he said, adding that such decisions as military escalation in Afghanistan should not be made by the US alone. His analysis of "these two great 20th century men of peace," as Dean of Faculty Rajiv Vohra described them in his introduction, was the subject of a Kathryn O. Greenberg Lecture, given as part of Brown University's Year of India.

Marxist Dramatist's Legacy Lives On

Rajmohan Gandhi to Deliver Lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi

 

Related Developments

Sinha Discusses Gender Roles, Labor Rights in the Indian Coal Fields

11/17/09: Throughout the 20th century, the coal mining center of Jharia was the staging ground for a struggle over Indian gender roles and labor rights. Jyoti Sinha, a doctoral student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, presented a history of these on-going conflicts in a lecture entitled "Absence of their Presence: Women's Lives in the Indian Coal Mines."

High School Teaching Guide Addresses India-Pakistan Relations

NSF Grant for Doctoral Program on Inequality Will Enhance the Study of India at Brown

 

Student Activities

South Asian Identity Week Kicks Off Today

11/16/09: South Asian Identity Week kicks off today with a talk by Bollywood scholar Rachel Dwyer on "Hindi Films and the Happy Ending." Throughout the week, academic and cultural events organized by Brown students and the Third World Center will range from a faculty panel on "South Asia Rising," to a performance by Basement Bangra DJ Rekha, and more.

Students Gather Writing and Art for Awaaz

Brown Badmaash Prepares for Rangeela Garba

 

From the Archives

Brown Acquires Indian Mathematics Collection

6/26/07: The Brown University Library has acquired the library of the late David E. Pingree, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of mathematics. The collection, consisting of more than 22,000 materials, is a remarkable resource for the study of mathematics in the ancient world, in particular India, and the relationship of Eastern mathematics to the development of mathematics and related disciplines in the West.

Cable Television Linked to Gains for Women in India

World Bank Social Scientist Pinpoints Weaknesses in India's Public Health System