Date:
Location:
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