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About
- Sylff Program
  
  Cultivating leaders of tomorrow in countries worldwide
  
  Mission & Philosophy
  
  The goals of the Sylff Program and the leadership qualities it seeks to nurture
- Message from the Chairman
  
  Promoting peaceful and socially inclusive development
  
  Sylff Association
  
  Platform to bring all Sylff stakeholders closer together
- History
  
  Major milestones since the program's inception in 1987
  
  Contact
  
  Ask questions, offer comments, or come visit us in Tokyo
Institutions
Fellows
Support Programs
- Overview
- Research
  
  Research Grant (SRG)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support doctoral and post-doc fellows’ academic research activities in their field of expertise.
  
  Research Abroad
  (SRA)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support research in a foreign country for a doctoral dissertation.
- Social Action
  
  Leadership
  Initiatives (SLI)
  
  Up to US$10,000 for social action projects and conferences/workshops initiated by fellows.
  
  Project Grant (SPG)
  
  Large-scale grants for projects with potential for substantial social impact.
- Networking
  
  Leaders Workshop
  
  Opportunities for intercultural group learning and leadership enhancement.
News & Voices
Administrators
Operation Manual
- Overview
- Conventional Scheme
  
  Guidelines on program and endowment management
- New Scheme
  
  For institutions wishing to focus on program operations
- Administrators Meetings
  
  Learn best practices and meet other Sylff administrators

Fellows Profile

Harshal Sonekar

Geneva Graduate Institute

Anthropology

Received Sylff fellowship in 2023
Academic supervisor : Aditya Bharadwaj
Current affiliation : Geneva Graduate Institute

Harshal Sonekar is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked at the ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology, a central government research institute in India, focusing on public health and the social determinants of health. His current research investigates the persistence of malnutrition among Dalit children in India, despite decades of state policies and programs intended to address the issue.
Through ethnographic research using a multi-sited methodology conducted within communities, state-supported institutional daycare centres known as Anganwadis, and a state-funded Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre for children with severe nutritional deficiencies, his work examines how institutional, state, and caste-based practices intersect in the governance of malnutrition, and how these dynamics may, paradoxically, contribute to its continued reproduction.

To contact this fellow, email the Sylff Association at sylff[a]tkfd.or.jp (replace [a] with @).