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

Date: 

Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 4:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

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

Speaker: Nandita Das

Indian Actor and Director

Discussant: Sunil Amrith

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

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

See also: History Events