Women’s Day 2023 Aanchal Malhotra: History-writing can no longer be male dominated
In a world where the word his-tory defines the past, author Aanchal Malhotra has unearthed tales of the Partition with her words. As the first Indian woman to record oral history and material memory of the Partition, this 33-year-old writer and co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory — a crowd-sourced digital repository tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and antiques from the Indian subcontinent — knows hows to stay sensitive and true to human emotions through her words.…