symposium participants

  • The Problem
    Posed by Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

  • FREEDOM IN AN IDOM OF LOSS
    Jasodhara Bagchi,  Founder-Director, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University and Chairperson, West Bengal Commission for Women, Kolkata

  • HISTORY'S CREATIVE COUNTERPART
    Subhoranjan Dasgupta, Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

  • HOINA
    A short story by Santosh Kumar Ghose, eminent litterateur

  • MEGHE DHAKA TARA
    Extract from a screenplay translated by Sudeshna Chakravarti, Professor of English, Calcutta University and literary critic,
    Kolkata

  • POEMS ON PARTITION
    By Jibanananda Das and Taslima Nasreen

  • THOSE DAYS IN NOAKHALI
    Ashoka Gupta, social activist; former General President, All India Women's Conference

  • A PARTITION DIARY
    Suhasini Das, freedom fighter and Gandhian activist who stayed in East Pakistan after Partition

#510 
February 2002

POROUS BORDERS,
DIVIDED SELVES

a symposium on Partitions in the East

February 2002

cover design by Akila Seshasayee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • EAST IS EAST, WEST IS WEST
    A report on the rehabilitation of refugees

  • UPROOTED AND DIVIDED
    Meghna Guha Thakurta, teaches International Relations at Dhaka University, Bangladesh

  • A 'GOD-SENT' OPPORTUNITY?
    Sujit Chaudhuri, former teacher of History, Rabindra Sadan Girl's College, Karimganj, Assam 

  • DISASTER IN TRIPURA
    Subir Bhaumik, East India Correspondent of the BBC; specialist on the North East, Kolkata

  • INTERVIEWS
    With Nalini Mitra, Sukumar Chaudhuri and Bithi Roy Chakravarti

  • THE NOWHERE PEOPLE
    Urvashi Butalia,
    Co-Publisher, Kali for Women, Delhi

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Rana P. Behal, Ritu Menon, Anshu Malhotra, and Urvashi Butalia

  • COMMENT
    Received from Swarna Rajagopalan, Singh Lecturer in South Asian Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT

  • IN MEMORIAM
    Anil Agarwal 1947 - 2002

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