Partition

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.…

Partition: Hard Reset is a fast-paced endgame weekly activity available after completing the Bluejay quest, which is part of the Hall of Heroes questline after the Destiny 2: Lightfall campaign. The recommended Power for this activity is 1790, but if you're Power 1750 or above, you should be able to do it solo. Partition also has numerous modifiers from Champions, elemental shielded enemies, elemental surges and threats, and more.Nimbus and Osiris will take you into the Vex Network to fight both the Vex…

In Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (2017), Aanchal Malhotra traced family histories through objects people carried across the border during Partition. The book was well-researched and eminently readable. It established Malhotra (whose grandparents were refugees from what would become Pakistan) as an authority on the Partition. She came to be known as a memory keeper. Last year, In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition explored the legacy of the Partition,…

Film studies has widened the scope of writing on film and has also broadened the readership, taking it beyond the exclusive domain of film scholars and academics who teach film theory. Pushed along by the need to express their passion for cinema, academics from different fields and non-academics too are stepping into this field of specialized writing. Somdatta Mandal, who retired as chairperson of the department of English at Viswa Bharati, Santi Niketan, is the author of Reflections, Refractions and Rejections: Three…

The Partition of British India is our perpetual spectre; its radiation has poisoned generations and led to mutations in our collective memory. In the absence of a broadly-accepted historical account, we have but the testimonies of survivors to go by. In Marina Wheeler’s The Lost Homestead, these testimonies become whole and find a voice. The events are seen primarily through the eyes of the author’s mother Dip, whose father is a landowner, doctor, and a vital part of the local administration in Punjab. The narration of…

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For close to three decades Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been prolifically churning out best sellers that examine the South Asian diaspora experience, immigration and cultural conflicts, reprise mythological and historical tales from a female perspective and experience, and interrogate patriarchy and celebrate feminism. Years ago, her Palace of Illusions followed by One Amazing Thing established her as an engaging story-teller. Oleander Girl some years later, felt tepid in comparison. The recent two successes bear…

What inspired Independence? Was the story of three sisters navigating Bengal’s pre and post-Partition landscape something you had been working on? My previous novel, The Last Queen, about Maharani Jindan, wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who fought valiantly but ultimately unsuccessfully against the British created in me a great desire to write about the end of the British occupation of India — when they are forced to leave and India gains her freedom. I started thinking of a story, and the sisters came to me! I had not…

There is a growing interest – scholarly and otherwise – in oral histories of Partition that foreground voices and narratives of common and unsung people, what made you write a book revolving around two larger-than-life men – MK Gandhi and MA Jinnah? In Partitions (2011), I wrote a novel that dealt with everyday people caught up in the horror of Partition and communal violence. In The Map and the Scissors (2021), to keep things new for myself creatively and enter untrodden (for me) territory, I pursued portraits of…

Set primarily in 1948, a period of much chaos in a newly independent India, Hyderabad is the second part of Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s Partition trilogy. At the time, Hyderabad was India’s largest and wealthiest princely State, ruled by the world’s richest man, the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, who carried a multitude of oddities within himself. Though unkempt and unassuming in appearance, he was the foremost Indian prince conferred with the ‘Exalted’ title, and had an annual income of…