EPISODE · Aug 11, 2017 · 22 MIN
Witness to two Partitions (Part I) / E7
from The Mittal Institute, Harvard University · host The Mittal Institute, Harvard University
In Part 1 of her extraordinary and unusual story, the Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Martha Chen - who was in India in 1947 and later, witnessed the creation of Bangladesh from Dhaka in 1971 - explains her family’s deep and continuing connections to South Asia and reads from letters written by her grandmother in the months leading up to Partition.
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In Part 1 of her extraordinary and unusual story, the Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Martha Chen - who was in India in 1947 and later, witnessed the creation of Bangladesh from Dhaka in 1971 - explains her family’s deep and continuing connections to South Asia and reads from letters written by her grandmother in the months leading up to Partition.
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