Grant Recipients
Grants from the Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation (HSF) are intended to support graduate studies, research and publication, cultural activities, and community events related to South Asia or the South Asian Diaspora within British Columbia. Grants are adjudicated by the HSF Board. Amounts typically range from $1,000 – $5,000, with a maximum of $10,000.
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Coastal Jazz Vancouver - Outdoor concert by Shruti Ramani’s group Raagaverse
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Arts Society
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Sejal Lal
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Chetna Association of Canada towards a play performance on Dalit issues.
- Social & Community Grant: Students Overcoming Substance Use Disorder & Addictions Society of Canada (SOUDA) related to youth grappling with substance use and mental health challenges – an initiative of SAMHAA
- Research & Publication Grant: Sukhwant Hundal to digitize and upload Darshan Singh's Canadian interview and publish a transcription of these recordings in a book format
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Meghna Haldar
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Simon Fraser University's VanCity Office of Community Engagement
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Melia Belli Bose
- Research & Publication Grant: Anushay Malik
- Social & Community Grant: Nepal Cultural Society of BC
- Social & Community Grant: Sameer Gandesha
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Arts Society
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Vancouver International Jazz Festival
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Centre for India and South Asia Research
- Research & Publication Grant: Rahat Imran
- Research & Publication Grant: South Asian Studies Institute, University of Fraser Valley
- Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University - Conference Co-sponsorship
- Social & Community Grant: Kaatza Historical Society to document the history of Punjabi Canadian communities that have resided around the Lake Cowichan region of British Columbia for over 100 years
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Arts Society
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Vancouver International Jazz Festival
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Mohamed Assani
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Meghna Haldar
- Arts & Cultural Grant: CIELO Films
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Punjabi Writers’ Forum
- Social & Community Grant: South Asian Legal Clinic of British Columbia
- Research & Publication Grant: Dharashree Das
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Surrey Art Gallery
- Social & Community Grant: SFU Institute for the Humanities 40th Anniversary Conference
- Social & Community Grant: UBC Centre for India and South Asia Research
- Social & Community Grant: BC Labour Heritage Centre
- Research & Publication Grant: JAMHOOR
- Social & Community Grant: South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD)
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Sarah Singh
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Mohamed Assani
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Vancouver Art Gallery
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Arts Society
- Research & Publication Grant: Indranil Chakraborty
- Research and Publication Grant: Sanjeev Routray for the book “The Right to be Counted: Displacement, Resettlement, and the Politics of the Poor in Delhi”
- Social Grant: West Coast Coalition Against Racism
- Cultural Grant: Dance Collection Danse and Nova Dance Group
- Cultural Grant: Charles Rahul Singh
- Cultural and Social Grant: Nawaz Soomro – Science awareness
- Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Arts Society
- Cultural Grant: Surrey Art Gallery – Rajesh Vora Photo exhibition
- Cultural Grant: Rungh Cultural Society
- Cultural Grant: Mohamed Assani
- Social Grant: Alternatives – Campaign to support Indian Farmers
- Research & Publication Grant: Ajay Bhardwaj, completion of PhD project
- Research & Publication Grant: Meghna Halder for workshop in Chhatisgarh in relation of film project
- Research & Publication Grant: Sam Barnett and SFU students for website DHANAK for South Asian LGBTQ stories
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Society for events with Vandana Shiva and others
- Social & Community Grant: South Asian Legal Clinic
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Tamil Student Association at University of BC for tenth anniversary celebration
- Research & Publication Grant: Simon Fraser University for conference on “Indigenous struggles and the ideology of development”
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Alex Sangha and Sher Vancouver for film, “Emergence: Coming out of the Shadows”
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Vancouver Art Gallery, Exhibition: “Moving Still: Performative Photography from India”
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Festival: several events, including “Conjuring the Future”, talk by Pico Iyer, and concert with Amjad Ali, “Strings for Peace”
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Rungh Magazine, for special issue on music
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Mohamed Assani for intercultural musical composition
- Social & Community Grant: Habiba Zaman (SFU) for Canadian South Asian Youth conference
- Research & Publication Grant: Courtney Tzto for publication of book on South Asians in Canadian hockey
- Research & Publication Grant: University of Fraser Valley, South Asian Studies for oral history project recording memory of South Asian elders
- Social & Community Grant: Anne Murphy, Centre for India and South Asia Research, UBC for event on the politics of violence in India in commemoration of 1984 Sikh massacre
- Social & Community Grant: Simon Fraser University for talk by Amitav Ghosh
- Social & Community Grant: SANSAD for recording event, “What is at Stake in India’s Elections: Hypernationalism and its Victims”
- Research & Publication Grant: SANSAD for organizing book launch of “Culture and Resistance” by Edward Said and David Barsamian
- Social & Community Grant: SANSAD for recording dinner celebrating Pervez Hoodbhoy, Sadhu Binning, and Ali Kazimi, recipients of honorary degrees at UBC
- Social & Community Grant: Simon Fraser University for talk by Amitav Ghosh on The Great Derangement
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Lower Mainland Bengali Cultural Society for musical program with Indian musician
- Social & Community Grant: Independent Jewish Voices for talk on Palestine by David Sheen
- Research & Publication Grant: SANSAD for book launch of “Witness Kashmir” by Sanjay Kak
- Social & Community Grant: University of British Columbia: session on caste and gender at 17th World Sanskrit conference
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Vancouver Jazz Festival for presenting Red Baraat
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Festival for presenting various writers
- Research & Publication Grant: SANSAD for book release of David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky book
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Sejal Lal for producing solo CD of her music
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Mohamed Assani for writing a sitar concerto
- Arts & Cultural Grant: SANSAD for screening SOZ: A BALLAD OF MALADIES
- Research & Publication Grant: Sameena Siddiqui for UBC PhD field work in North India
- Research & Publication Grant: Stacy Pigg for “BATOGATO: a graphic narrative about Himalayan lives and the roads that change them”
- Research & Publication Grant: Samir Gandesha for presenting on a panel on Ajay Gudavarthy’s book, “India after Modi: Populism and the Right”; lectures at various Indian universities; and interviews on the rise of political authoritarianism in India
- Arts & Cultural Grant: SANSAD for video recording panel on “Peace Now: No Nukes in South Asia”
- Arts & Cultural Grant: Nawaz Soomro for screening Neil deGrasse Tyson’s documentary, COSMOS, with subtitles translated into Sindhi for school students in Sindh
- Social & Community Grant: Surrey Muse for memorial event, Naming the Unnamed: celebrating Pakistani women
- Cultural Grant: Vancouver Art Gallery for the Inaugural Institute of Asian Art Symposium
- Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Festival for inviting M. G. Vassanji
- Community Grant: SANSAD for conference, “Gathering in the Shadows of a Nuclear Winter”
- Cultural Grant: Skyrocket Digital for “250 Years of Heer” concert with Madan Gopal Singh and Chaar Yaar
- Cultural Grant: Vancouver Mural Festival for Sandeep Johal’s mural at 147 E Broadway, Vancouver
- Cultural Grant: Rungh Cultural Society for digital archive project
- Community Grant: South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy for conference on “Gathering in the Shadows of a Nuclear Winter”
- Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Graduate Scholarship: Srijani Datta
- Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Graduate Scholarship: Michael Oram (PhD project: impact of democratic governance on policy development in Vancouver and Singapore)
- Cultural Grant: Labour Studies Awards: Dylan Webb, Eric Segment, Yawen Wan
- Cultural Grant: Lady Jams for producing their first CD
- Cultural Grant: Vancouver Art Gallery for exhibition of Bharati Kher works
- Cultural Grant: VIASFF South Asian Film Festival for sponsoring Gujarati film, “Wrong Side Raju”
- Cultural Grant: Mohamed Asani for creating a Sitar concerto in collaboration with John Oliver for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
- Cultural Grant: Vancouver Summer Festival for event on Islamophobia and invitation to Vandana Shiva
- Research and Publication Grant: Habiba Zaman for conference on Bengali migration to British Columbia
- Research and Publication Grant: Rahat Imran for book project on women’s historical and oppositional filmmaking in the Muslim countries of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan
- Research and Publication Grant: Anne Murphy, UBC Asian Studies, for aesthetics of fragility project
- Research and Publication Grant: Bob Hackett, SFU Communications Studies for supporting Communications 431
- Community Grant: SANSAD for the visit of Noor Zahir
- Cultural Grant: Annual Awards for Labour Studies: Bonnie Tetlock, Dylan Webb, Joel Warren
- Cultural Grant: Women in Film and Television Festival for screening of Shonali Bose’s film, “Margarita, with a Straw”
- Cultural Grant: Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration, “Songs of Revolution” conference and performance
- Cultural Grant: Mangla Bansal for development of film project on Nobel Laureate (2015), Kailash Satyarthi
- Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Festival: (1) The Ever After: Memories, Silences, Traumas: conversation with Padma Viswanathan and Jaspreet Singh. (2) The Strings that Bind: Amjad Ali and Sons in Concert. (3) The Wrath of God: Religion and Violence in the World Today: Reza Asla
- Research and Publication Grant: Rohit Mujumdar, PhD candidate, UBC, “Made in USA: Livelihood, Property and Urban Inclusion in Ulhasnagar, India”
- Research and Publication Grant: Nishant Upadhyay, PhD candidate, York University, “Indians and Other Indians: Race, Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Settler Colonialism”
- Research and Publication Grant: Raj Khadka, Phd candidate, UBC, “Exploring Resettled Bhutanese Refugee Family Employment Practices in Negotiating Structural Realities of the Canadian Labour Market”
- Research and Publication Grant: Habiba Zaman, Professor, GSWS-SFU, “Engaging With a Dalit Community in Bangladesh”
- Cultural Grant: South Asian Film Education Society, “The Bard in Bombay,” public lecture, conference, and screenings on the presence of Shakespeare in Indian cinema
- Community Grant: Institute for the Humanities, SFU, “State of Extraction” conference
- Community Grant: South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, “Our Common Home: Conference on Climate Change”
- Community Grant: University of the Fraser Valley, public lecture by David Barsamian on climate change
- Community Grant: South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, public forum with Arun Kundnani on “Race, Class, and Empire”
- Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Graduate Scholarship: Simanpreet Badesha (PhD project: Gender, Sexuality, body, racialization, and identity construction for South Asian women in Canadian Society)
- Research and Publication Grant: Sanjeev Routray, “Urban Restructuring and Politics of Poverty in Delhi” (PhD project)
- Research and Publication Grant: Indranil Chakroborty, “Informal Labour in the IT Sector in Bangalore”
- Annual Labour Studies Grant: Edith Cuellar Mata; Cayley Joel Warren; Dylan Webb
- Annual Graduate Scholarship: Courtney Szto (PhD project: South Asian Canadians in Ice Hockey)
- Cultural Grant: Indian Summer Arts Society, ARTPOLITIK
- Cultural Grant: India Music Society, Saskatoon, concert by sitarist Vikas Gupta
- Cultural Grant: Mohamed Asani, workshop with Ustad Shaheed Parvez
- Community Grant: PICS, Golden Tree Memorial Project for Farmworkers
- Community Grant: University of the Fraser Valley, talk by David Barsamian
- Community Grant: SANSAD and SBCJ, public forum on climate justice
- Cultural Grant: Sherri Duggal, support for book launch
- Research and Publication Grant: Progressive Intercultural Services Society, Farmworkers Union Book project
- Cultural Grant: Sarah Singh, film project on musical heritage of South Asia, “A Million Rivers”
- Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Graduate Scholarship in South Asian Studies, SFU: Dharashree Das, “Matters of the Womb: Muslim Women’s Narratives of Fertility, Family, and the Indian State”
- Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Grant for Labour Studies, SFU
- Community Grant: Seriously Free Speech Society, Public Lecture by Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia
- Community Grant: South Asian Film Education Society, Cinema for Change: Addressing Violence Against Women
- Cultural Grant: Mohamed Assani, Sitar workshop with Ustad Shaheed Pervez
- Community Grant: Society for Bangladesh Climate Justice, Seminar, UBC
- Community Grant: South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Ghadar Centenary Celebration, Public Forum and screening of film, “Chittagong”
- Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Graduate Scholarship in South Asian Studies, SFU
- Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Grant for Labour Studies, SFU
- Research and Publication Grant: Supriyo Routh, University of Victoria, BC (“Informal Workers in India: Reconceptualizing Labour Laws to Promote Capabilities”)
- Cultural Grant: Fazeli Films (Phoolan Devi Project)
- Cultural Grant: Praxis Screen Writers Centre, SFU (screening of Anjum Rajabali film, “Rajneeti”)
- Community Grant: Progressive Intercultural Services Society, Harmony House Project
- Community Grant: South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (Lecture by David Barsamian)
- Community Grant: The Mother Language Lovers of the World (Seminar on “Multilingualism for Inclusive Education”
- Cultural Grant: South Asian Film Education Society: Tagore-on-Film Festival
- Cultural and Social Grant: Kwantlen Polytechnic University: A South Asian Women’s Empowerment Conference
- Research and Publication Grant: Jennifer Ganapathy: “Community Dialogue Project for Domestic Workers and Low-Income Communities, Bangalore, India
- Annual Grant for undergraduate studies in Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University