Interview, Aanchal Malhotra, Author, Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided? – “You learn to take care of the…
How do you feel about the award? As someone who describes herself as an oral historian, what is it like to be welcomed by another discipline?It is an enormous honour to be recognized for the work, and particularly for it to find resonance in landscapes across the world from where it was written. As far as being welcomed by another discipline is concerned, perhaps this speaks to the malleability of Remnants as a project. When I began working on it, I too came from another discipline – visual art – and was able to carve a…