“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic land devoid of geographic borders,… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.” — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“Migration is often accompanied by a feeling of unavoidable disorientation, and the circumstances of 1947 would have pronounced this feeling. In most cases, it would have created an involuntary distance between where one was born before the Partition and where one moved to after it, stretching out their identity sparsely over the expanse of this distance. As a result, somewhere… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share
“A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out of the… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation, then the… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
