Saadat Hasan Manto was the great Urdu short-story writer who captured the human tragedy of the partition of India. Join us for a screening of the film Manto, followed by a conversation with the film’s Director, Nandita Das. Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, and Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, will join the conversation.
This is sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and co-sponsored by the the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute.
