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Dr. Vikram Sahai Lekhi
Dr. Vikram Sahai Lekhi from the University of Calgary traveled to Bangalore to create an international student-run program in bio-medical technology.
Grant Awarded: Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant (2008-2009)
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François Thibeault
François Thibeault received a student excellence award to study Buddhist pilgrimages in India and the globalization of Buddhism.
Grant Awarded: Student Excellence Award (2007-2008)
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Amenda Kumar
As part of the Healthy Ageing in Chennai Project established by a professor from the University of Regina, Amenda Kumar was sent to Chennai to explore the perceptions of health care students on their views of elderly health and well-being. The aim of the research was to gain an in-depth understanding of students’ perceptions on healthy aging, how these perceptions are informed and to what extent education and training prepares them to work with a growing elderly population in India. Amenda is a recent graduate from the Master of Social Work program at the University of British Columbia.
Grant Awarded: Youth Internship
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Noushin Khushrushahi
Noushin Khushrushahi was awarded a student excellence award for her work on examining the historical and cultural construct of “Indian sexuality” on safe-sex practices, analyzing HIV/AIDS prevention and education programs in Pune, and investigating the impact of safe-sex messaging on the sex practices of sex workers and their babus. She is also very interested in examining and addressing the global issue of human trafficking.
Grant Awarded: Student Excellence Award 2007
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David Geary
David Geary traveled to India to study the recasting of (im)permanence in BodhGaya: World Heritage, Transnational Pilgrimage and Tourism in Bihar.
Grant Awarded: India Studies: Student Research Fellowship (2005-2006)
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Vedashree (Shreela) Chakrabartty
Filmmaker and sound recordist, Shreela Chakrabartty, travelled to India to develop a point of view documentary narrative of her ancestry using the metaphor of Bengali Bungalow. She conducted her research from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata. Since 1994, Shreela’s retired parents have been snowbirding to their house in the Hooghly district of West Bengal which they had purchased in the 1970s. From found footage, a family tree, a memoir written by her father, and conversations with septuagenarians and octogenarians, Shreela has begun to trace her ancestry. Her parents continue to live part time on her mother’s ancestral land from centuries past while her father’s family migrated from pre-partitioned Bangladesh and are now scattered all over India and the world. Traveling to destinations where clusters of her family members lived and continue to live, provide her with a personalized depiction of a Canadian of Bengali heritage.
Grant Awarded: India Studies: Arts Fellowship (2005-2006)
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Samuel Benoit
Samuel Benoit worked with a supervisor from Queen’s University and with a supervisor at the Centre for Plants, People and Ecosystems (CPPE) in Chennai to study local knowledge regarding sustainable agriculture in the hill regions of South India.
Grant Awarded: Youth Internship (2007-2008)
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Dr. Carmen Loiselle
Dr. Carmen Loiselle, as a leader of the Psychosocial Oncology Research Training program (PORT) at McGill University, has been expanding on a recently signed MoU with the Centre of Psycho-oncology for Education and Research (COPER) in India. In meetings funded by the Shastri Institute, they planed the next steps in developing collaborative research agendas, graduate student and professor exchanges and complimentary academic and clinical activities.
Grant Awarded: Partnership Developement Seed Grant (2007-2008)
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Dr. T. Subramanyam Naidu
Dr. T. Subramanyam Naidu traveled to Dalhousie University in Halifax to develop a course on the Aboriginal Ethnography of Canada.
Grant Awarded: Canadian Studies: Faculty Enrichment Fellowship (2007-2008)
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Dr. Carmel Mothersill
Dr. Carmen Mothersill works in cancer research and has collaborated with Indian partners at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre to explore radiation induced bystander effects and their implications in cancer research.
Grant Awarded: Partnership Development Seed Grant (2008-2009)
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Sonia St-Michel
Sonia St-Michel has become disciplined in the art of Odissi Dance thanks to time spent training in India. This is the second arts fellowships she has received from the Shastri Institute.
Grant Awarded: India Studies: Arts Fellowship (2008-2009)
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Dr. Mohamed Latif Khan
Dr. Mohamed Latif Khan of the North Eastern Region Institute of Science and Technology in Itanagar, has been training at the University of Concordia in modern genomics techniques for addressing issues in environment and biodiversity with an emphasis on conservation of biodiversity in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Grant Awarded: Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant (2008)
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Jennifer Cutler
In India, Jennifer Cutler worked on her MA thesis on Indian Development Theory. Her research focused on bridging grass roots, community development and civil society in southern India.
Grant Awarded: India Studies: Student Research Fellowship (2004-2005)
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Harpreet Kaur
Harpreet Kaur traveled to Toronto, Ontario where she studied Sihk Diaspora in North America and the Punjab Crisis.
Grant Awarded: Canadian Studies: Doctoral Research Fellowship (2007-2008)
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Kory Goldberg
In India, Kory Goldberg studied how local education systems change as people encounter international religious pilgrimage movements. His focus was on international Buddhist pilgrimages to Bodhgaya (the alleged location of the Buddha’s enlightenment) and how they have changed education in that rural town.
Grant Awarded: India Studies: Doctoral Research Fellowship (2007-2008)
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Dr. Mahesh Kumar Dey
Dr. Mahesh Dey traveled to Canada to perform a critical study of native culture and history.
Grant Awarded: Canadian Studies: Faculty Research Fellowship (2007-2008)
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Jeffrey Bawa
Les Missions commerciales at Laval University is a student organization that has been sending students overseas for 12 years representing Canadian companies in international markets and providing invaluable work experience to Laval students. With help from the Shastri Institute they conducted their first trade mission to India in 2008. Jeffrey Bawa participated in this first trade mission to Mumbai.
Grant Awarded: Grant to develope a study in India Programme (2007-2008)
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Nalini Mohabir
Nalini Mohabir’s research in India focused on collecting narratives about the migration and settlement experiences of Indian indentured labourers who were sent to British Guiana (beginning in 1838) and who later chose to return to India. Through her research she was able to track down and interview 2 original passengers and 7 descendants of passengers aboard the ship MV Resurgent – the last repatriation of Indo-Caribbeans back to India.
Grant Awarded: India Studies: Student Research Fellowship (2006-2007)
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Terah Sportel
The broad aim of Terah Sportel’s research in India was to contribute to the understanding of how political reform and liberalization policies have restructured socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental spaces. Her research focused on a case study of the coconut palms and the oilseed sector in the State of Kerala.
Grant Awarded: India Studies: Student Research Fellowship (2007-2008)
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Dr. Shaileshkumar Shukla
Dr. Shaileshkumar Shukla took part in a collaborative research project between the University of Manitoba and the University of Delhi to encourage conservation and sustainable development in the Indian Himalaya through partnership and participatory governance.
Grant Awarded: Partnership Development Seed Grant (2007-2008)
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Prabjit Barn
As a Shastri Institute Youth Intern, Prabjit Barn worked with a supervisor from McGill University to assess the long term consequences of the Union Carbide tragedy in Bhopal, India. She helped gather data for the design and implementation of programs to alleviate long-term consequences of the Bhopal tragedy. This included work on a strategy for the dissemination of health-education information for victims.
Grant Awarded: Youth Internship (2007-2008)
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