#  Partition in Literature, Film and History: Screening of Nandita Das’s New Film “Manto” 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 12, 2019** 

 04:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 **Speaker**: [Nandita Das](https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/people/das-nandita-2207)

 Indian Actor and Director

 **Discussant**: [Sunil Amrith](https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/people/amrith-sunil-458)

 Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies  
Department of South Asian Studies  
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 Chair  
Department of South Asian Studies  
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 Professor of History  
Department of History  
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 Chair, Southeast Asia Committee  
Harvard University Asia Center

 **Discussant**: [Sugata Bose](https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/people/bose-sugata-459)

 Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History & Affairs  
Department of History  
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History & Affairs  
Department of South Asian Studies  
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 **Location:** S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

 **Sponsors:** Harvard University Asia Center, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History

 **Co-sponsors:** Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University

 Saadat Hasan Manto was the great Urdu short-story writer who captured the human tragedy of the partition of India

 Followed by a conversation with:

 Nandita Das, Director



 

 



 

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