![]() ![]() Still, it was a collective trauma on entire generations of people. The Partition has now become nothing but a repercussion that happened of the Independence the substantial cost of freedom. The history of families, their attachment with their land, community and religion gets lost. These liven the memories of the Independence of India, but somewhere amongst these, the individual stories get lost. Most of the recorded history consists of the speeches, the opinions and the documents of prominent political leaders and British officials. ![]() However, it is marred by one of the darkest episodes in human history, a massive exodus of communities on both sides of the border: The Partition. ![]() ![]() Our memories of the Independence are often happy ones, India finally moved out of the clutches of the British Raj and subsequently became a free nation. Remnants of a Separation is a collection of stories, true stories, in fact, episodes that took place during the Partition in 1947. There are always certain books that you recommend to everyone, and I think I have found one rather beautiful! I will always regard this as Aanchal Malhotra’s magnum opus for she has done such an excellent job that I don’t think she’ll ever be able to surpass the sheer brilliance of this work. For better or for worse, I have become that storyteller – Aanchal Malhotra You extract an object from the past and deposit it where it doesn’t belong and, decades later, it will tell a story. ![]()
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