“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
“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 deeper I excavated, the more I found, and that too in innumerable renditions.” — 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… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
“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
