Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan

Wednesday, August 14, 2002, 8-10 p.m.

Canvas Cafe Gallery
1200 9th Aveneue at Lincoln (Sunset District)
San Francisco
(415) 504-0060

PARKING: free parking in lot, on-street parking, tons of spaces in Golden Gate which is only a block away.

Pizza, sandwiches, alcoholic/non-alcoholic (juice, tea, coffee, sodas, etc.) beverages, and various other foodstuff is available at this location. There's also an art gallery featuring local artists.

PolitiKafe will facilitate a book discussion on Conflict Unending?: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947 by Sumit Ganguly. The book is available at amazon.com and at Borders Bookstores.

This outstanding examination of the India-Pakistan conflict is a indispensable reading for the scholar and policymaker. Sumit Ganguly offers a guide to its deeper origins and its dangerous manifestations with clarity and rigor. Dr. Ganguly has explored the reasons for India-Pakistan discord; his book is a major contribution to our understanding of what has emerged as one of the world’s major trouble spots.” __ Stephen P. Cohen, Brookings Institution

Sumit Ganguly is a professor of Asian studies and government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a fellow and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. His previous books include The Origins of War in South Asia and The Crisis in Kashmir. [from the back cover of the book]