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Posted at 9:06 a.m., Monday, October 15, 2007

Indian scholar to discuss 'Partition' Oct. 22

Advertiser Staff

 

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Sukrita Paul Kumar will give a free lecture on "Partition and After" at 3 p.m. Oct. 22, at the University of Hawaii Manoa Campus, Kuykendall 410 (Colloquium Room).

Kumar, an author, scholar and translator, is a professor at Delhi University in India. She will address the ways that literature can encourage reconciliation and healing by telling the forgotten, hidden stories of individuals caught in times of social dislocation. Also appearing will be Monica Ghosh, librarian in charge of the South Asia collection of Hamilton Library.

Information: fstewart@hawaii.edu