![]() ![]() I have tried extracting stories from many of my family members of the older generation with no success whatsoever. ![]() I have been very curious about how life was before and after India gained independence. I might say this is the book that I have been waiting for. Remnants of a Seperation by Aanchal Malhotra These stories are a celebration of the human spirit that does not accept defeat the spirit that makes a person look at ‘fate’ straight in the eye and carry on with life. ![]() Once in an alien city, these brave people stood tall and built their lives from scratch from nothingness. The Partition affected the rich and the poor with a hard blow – people were forced to give up all their belongings and move to a land that would be their new home because of the religion they were born into. Friends became enemies neighbours became betrayers (many exceptions of course which are narrated in several stories where humanness over rides communal sentiments) and the country (two countries? India and Pakistan?) was thrown in to disarray. Long before partition, Muslims and Hindus co-existed as neighbours, friends or business partners until the Partition brought its axe down and created a huge rift. ![]() Aanchal Malhotra’s Remnants of a Separation narrates the history of partition through heirlooms, gifts smuggled across the borders and memories etched in minds. ![]()
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