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Do you know an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis on the topic of South Asia? Nominate it now for the annual SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award. SASNET annually grants a Lund University student the Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences. You are now able to nominate a thesis for the ongoing academic year of 2024/2025.To be eli

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nominate-now-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20242025 - 2025-10-15

Fainaz Inamdeen, a PhD student in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded the 2025 SASNET PhD Travel Grant. The funding will support a two-week research stay at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, where Fainaz Inamdeen will continue his work on bridge scour - an increasingly urgent issue as extreme river flows become more common due to climate change.The visit builds on

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fainaz-inamdeen-awarded-2025-sasnet-phd-travel-grant - 2025-10-15

Sofia Nyström and Ida Nilsson have been awarded the 2025 SASNET Travel Grant for Journalism Students. This autumn, they will travel to Sri Lanka to report on the country’s ongoing economic and political challenges. The SASNET travel grant is designed to give journalism students the opportunity to conduct on-the-ground reporting in South Asia, encouraging a deeper and more nuanced understanding of

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sofia-nystrom-and-ida-nilsson-awarded-sasnet-travel-grant-journalism-students-2025 - 2025-10-15

On 22-23 June 2016, Invest in Skåne and Medicon Village – connected to Lund University – organize for the first time a summit entitled The Bridge. The aim of the summit is to enable and drive dialogue, cooperation and research within Life and Materials Science, and by these means help solve some of today’s biggest challenges in areas like energy, health, environment, water and poverty. Well-known

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-annual-bridge-summit-lund-find-solutions-major-challenges - 2025-10-15

On September 17, SASNET hosted a lecture with Erik Törner (Svalorna Indien Bangladesh) at Lund City Library, exploring India’s rapid economic growth and the inequalities that remain. In his lecture, Erik Törner, who has worked in international development for more than 25 years, presented an overview of India’s economic rise alongside the social challenges that persist. He described the country’s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indias-economic-miracle-why-not-everyone-included - 2025-10-15

SASNET affiliated researcher Therese Boje Mortensen recently published two articles in Sydasien magazine on the outsourcing of Indian government schemes to local NGOs and PM Modi's supporters in the ongoing elections. Government schemes in India reach far – but government jobs do notThe Indian state outsources a range of permanent social programmes to local NGOs. The argument is that NGOs reach ‘t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/therese-boje-mortensen-published-two-articles-indian-politics - 2025-10-15

Oxford graduate Thakkar arrived in Lund for a month-long fellowship with SASNET. Chirayu Thakkar graduated recently from the Modern South Asian Studies program from the University of Oxford. He is currently a graduate student in political science at the Central European University, Hungary. His primary interests are India’s domestic politics and its interaction with the foreign policy. He is curre

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-research-fellow-chirayu-thakkar - 2025-10-15

SASNET affiliated researchers Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson recently participated in two seminars in Belgium on media challenges in the Indian and European elections. Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson, program director at LU School of Journalism, participated in a panel talk at the Press Club in central Brussels on May 13. The discussion was led by Jean-Luc Racine, Emeritus CNR

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researchers-presented-collaborative-project-belgium - 2025-10-15

Rishi Jha recently presented his paper on narratives of displacement and evictions of the urban poor in Mumbai at the Frontiers of Accumulation at the University of Copenhagen. On May 13, 2019, Rishi Jha, doctoral student and Lund University's School of Social Work and SASNET affiliated researcher, presented his latest paper that explores trends of evictions, displacement and redevelopment in urba

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-presented-conference-university-copenhagen - 2025-10-15

Chirayu Thakkar, currently visiting SASNET as a research fellow, published an on Modi's foreign policy in The Diplomat. In his article, that was published in The Diplomat's online format on 22 May 2019, Thakkar discusses the international but also the domestic rationale of PM Narendra Modi's "Look West" policy, aiming at strengthening ties with the Middle East.Click here to read the full article.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-sasnet-research-fellow-published-diplomat - 2025-10-15

Admir Skodo has recently published a report on Afghanistan and the ongoing peace talks between the Talibans and USA in Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor. Afghanistan and the Taliban: Peace at what price?Peace talks have been going on last year between the United States and the Taliban for a solution to the long, bloody conflict in Afghanistan. If the parties succeed in reaching agreement, this may mean

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-has-published-report-afghanistan - 2025-10-15

SASNET director Andreas Johansson moderated a session on European Perspectives on the Indo-Pacific. On Monday 3 June SASNET co-hosted the joint symposium Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center? in Singapore. The symposium was an collaboration between, National University of Singapore – Institute of South Asian Studies, EU Centre in Singapore, Embassy of Sweden Singapore, S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-symposium-indo-pacific-singapore - 2025-10-15

The South Asia across the Nordic Region Conference (SANR) 2019 took place on June 11 and 12 in Uppsala and had participants from various Swedish and foreign academic institutions. The 2019 SANR conference was hosted by Sasnet/Lund University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). SANR is an annual networking conferenc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-successful-nordic-south-asian-conference - 2025-10-15

Isha arrived in early June and will work for SASNET as a post-doctoral researcher for the next two years. Isha Dubey graduated with a PhD in History from the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in October 2017 for her doctoral dissertation, The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh and the Idea of ‘Home’: Migration, Displacement and Shifting Narratives of Belonging Since the 1940s.  Post her

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-post-doc-isha-dubey - 2025-10-15

SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organised a panel on current Indian domestic and foreign policy at this year's Almedalen. The talk is now availabke as a podcast. At the recent Almedalen week, SASNET and UI hosted a seminar on current Indian policies and their relevance for Sweden and Europe as part of the institutes' joint South Asia Initiative.On July 4, 201

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/podcast-seminar-almedalen-2019 - 2025-10-15

Anni-Elina Vänskä will do an internship at SASNET during the autumn semester of 2019. Anni's work tasks will include event management, web and social media content management, photography, illustration, writing reports and articles as well as conducting research. Anni-Elina began specialising in South Asia during her bachelor’s in International Studies at Leiden University in The Netherlands and c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/anni-elina-vanska-joins-sasnet - 2025-10-15

The School of Journalism and Department of Strategic Communication in collaboration with SASNET and Reporters Without Borders Sweden host a full-day workshop about press freedom, journalism, and democracy at Mindpark, Helsingborg. South Asia is the world’s most densely populated region and among the poorest, and the most illiterate regions of the world. In the meantime, India is seen on the rise w

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-challenges-media-south-asia - 2025-10-15

The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is offering three different grants for scholars from NCI member universities to conduct research in India. As in previous years, the Nordic Centre in India, a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in the Nordic countries, will provide funding to a number of doctor-level researchers and above from NCI member universities to support their resea

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-grants-research-visits-india-0 - 2025-10-15

SASNET's post-doctoral fellow Isha Dubey recently wrote an article on Kashmir's contested reality for The Conversation. In her article, Isha discusses the varying perceptions of present-day Kashmir - breathtaking tourist destination on the one hand and isolated military zone on the other - and wonders how the revocation of Kashmir's special status in India's constitution will be reflected in India

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-isha-dubey-publishes-piece-kashmir - 2025-10-15

As a result of the joint symposium on Europe in the Indo-Pacific region in Singapore in June, the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) published a series of papers on South Asia. In June 2019 SASNET co-organised the joint symposium "Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center?" in Singapore. The symposium was an collaboration between the National University of Singapore, Ins

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/institute-south-asian-studies-publishes-discussion-paper-series - 2025-10-15