The generation that witnessed the partition is dying and with it the memories of possibly the most important event in contemporary Indian history. I haven’t even made it through the introduction yet, and I am already weeping (A good book, a great film, I weep).
To tell or rather re-tell the story of partition through objects that refugees brought or left behind is a fresh take, and Aanchal Malhotra has done a brilliant job at executing it. The history of partition (India-Pakistan) is nothing new to people of the subcontinent, we grew up hearing the stories of the freedom struggle and then the partition of the country that followed. Remnants of a Separation has been all over the social media for the past few months, my curiosity had already peaked. The most obvious place to go was my mother’s study that houses something around 800 books.
Obviously, I needed a book to get started. I am home for the summer, and I am doing the “30 books in 30 days” challenge. “Remnants of a Separation, A history of the partition through material memory” by Aanchal Malhotra.
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