As the men make the decisions and wield the swords, the women bear the brunt of the carnage that tears through India in the sticky hot months of its cruellest summer ever.

“Somehow, I was very clear that it had to be women’s voices. It had to be the modern history of India through the woman’s eye.” – Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar speaks on writing from the perspective of women who live through traumatic events and why we haven’t been able to put the horrors of the Partition behind us.

This excerpt from The Radiance of a Thousand Suns by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar brings back haunting memories of a tragedy.