![]() ![]() A moving and emotional meditation on South Asia's history and the way that Partition still resonates in the present. She tells Tina Das how Partition is an enduring subject for the. 'Aanchal Malhotra has written a deeply thoughtful and original work which grapples with the poignant and multiple ways that Partition memories still animate later generations. Its power and poignancy will haunt the reader. Aanchal Malhotra talks about her book In The Language of Remembering, a Harper Collins publication on ThePrint SoftCover. ![]() They uncover a rich tapestry of pain and rupture, but also of hope and connection – in belonging through belongings, and identities reforged.įrom a string of pearls to a young woman’s poetry, this extraordinary book gives voice to the voiceless, restoring the everyday to a great drama of the twentieth century. Item 70074 Remnants of Partition 21 Objects From a Continent Divided. Remnants of Partition is a remarkable alternative history, telling the family stories hidden within items carried between the new India and Pakistan, amid chaos and violence. ![]() Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power of such objects: to unlock the secrets of a colossal human migration, and a life that once was. The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. ![]()
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