Notes from the field
By Isobel Chiang, 08/04/2019. If I’m being honest, the month before I left for India was not an enjoyable one: I was excited for my [...]
Kolkata’s Cheenapara Breakfast
By Isobel Chiang, 07/30/2019. Tucked precariously inside Kolkata’s Bowbazar district is Territy Bazaar, known colloquially as “Old Chinatown.” I say “precariously” because if you didn’t [...]
My encounters with Kolkata
By Isobel Chiang, 07/26/2019. And then, just like that, it was time to get on a plane to Kolkata. "You’re going to Kolkata?" people would [...]
CISLI Fellows Learn about NYC Waterways and Urban Ecology
We are excited to share some photo highlights from our recent Understanding NYC from the Water tour led by New School faculty member Brian McGrath, [...]
CISLI Fellows Explore NYC Waterways
As part of our China India Scholar-Leaders initiative, we currently have our eight CISLI Fellows in New York City for their month-long residency. Over [...]
Kailash Cartographies PR
Kailash Cartographies Press Release ARTISTS EXPLORE SACRED CARTOGRAPHIES Artists from India, China, Nepal and US engage with contemporary issues of landscape and sacredness using multiple [...]
Day Seventeen: Sanchi…Buddhalicious
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 8/06/2015. Oh man, what a trip! Pure beauty. Whoever crated this earth, he or she did a darn magnificent job—because even excrescences [...]
4th Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium – India
The India China Institute recently wrapped up our 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Emerging Scholars Symposium at Panjab University in India. For those not able to attend, [...]