Aanchal Malhotra

“Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.”

— Aanchal Malhotra

“We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when…

— Aanchal Malhotra

“Migration is often accompanied by a feeling of unavoidable disorientation, and the circumstances of 1947 would have pronounced this feeling. In most…

— Aanchal Malhotra

“A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And…

— Aanchal Malhotra

“Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out…

— Aanchal Malhotra

“Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part…

— Aanchal Malhotra

“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other…

— Aanchal Malhotra

“If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation,…

— Aanchal Malhotra