He is one of four Indians who have earned the British Council’s fully funded Charles Wallace India Trust Award for the years 2021–22…reports Aatif Qayoom
Taha Mughal, a Kashmiri-based artist and architect, is the first person from Jammu and Kashmir who has made it to the prestigious Harvard Graduate School of Design’s master’s in design (MDes) programme (Narratives domain) 2022–23 session.
Taha had made it into the programme, which now has 14 students from around the world. Mugal, a resident of HMT, Srinagar, attended Minto Circle School and, afterwards, Tyndale Biscoe School in Srinagar. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra, alumni of the Department of Architecture.He is currently pursuing his MPhil in Heritage Studies at the world-renowned University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
He is one of four Indians who have earned the British Council’s fully funded Charles Wallace India Trust Award for the years 2021–22. He had also been offered the highly coveted Chevening Scholarships UK 2021-22, but he chose the CWIT fellowship instead.Speaking to Rising Kashmir Taha said he has received the Effective Altruism Fellowship by Cambridge 2021, the Dara Shikoh Scholar’s Fellowship Award 2019 for his upcoming translated book on the history and culture of Bhaderwah, and the Kashmir Fellowship for Peace Building 2019 by The Bridge Institute UK for his regional contribution to the promotion of the creative arts, among many other awards.
He has worked with a number of prestigious institutions, including the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) Kashmir, the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Srinagar, and the Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts.
Apart from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Taha has also been accepted to the famous Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, another Ivy League university in the United States with an admittance rate of less than 8%. He’s also been offered admission to two other universities in the United States.Notably, Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a global admittance rate of less than 4.5 percent.It is the oldest and most prominent university in the United States, as well as one of the most prestigious in the world.
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