Crossing Over: Partition Literature from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Crossing Over, the summer 2007 issue of MANOA, marks the sixtieth anniversary of one of the most significant events of the twentieth century: when India achieved its independence from Great Britain and was partitioned into two countries, Pakistan and India.
The issue was launched on August 23 in New Delhi, India, at the American Center, U.S. Embassy, and on October 22 in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Cosponsored by Zakir Husain College, Delhi University, the August launch featured a panel of writers and scholars moderated by Sukrita Paul Kumar, guest editor of Crossing Over. The panelists were film director and writer Gulzar; writer and editor Urvashi Butalia, of the feminist publishing house Zubaan; scholar Shail Mayaram, of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies; and scholar and writer C. M. Naim, of the University of Chicago. Those attending the event included teachers and students from many colleges in Delhi.
Sponsors of the event in October included the UHM Center for South Asian Studies and the UHM English Department.
The publication of MANOA is supported by grants from the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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