#  Borders in Modern Asia: Partition in Literature, Film and History 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 12, 2019** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

 Screening of the film *Manto* by actor and director Nandita Das.

 [Manto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manto_(2018_film)) tells the story of Saadat Hasan Manto, the great Urdu short-story writer who captured the human tragedy of the partition of India.

 Followed by a panel discussion between:

   ![Manto poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum8361/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/globalhistory/files/manto_film_poster_2017.jpg?itok=rbV6Cn_E) 

 

 [Ayesha Jalal](https://ase.tufts.edu/history/faculty/jalal.asp),  Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University  
[Nandita Das](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandita_Das), Director  
[Sugata Bose](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/sugata-bose),  Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University  
[Sunil Amrith](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/sunil-amrith),  Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University

 Sponsored by the [Harvard University Asia Center](https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/). Cosponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History.



 

 



 

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