Women Of Partition: ‘Memories Revive Pain And Loss’ – Anuradha Sharma

Her book Batware ka Dard is an explicit picture of the whole Partition trauma she saw through her own eyes.
Her book Batware ka Dard is an explicit picture of the whole Partition trauma she saw through her own eyes.
Read these books to know more about Indian independence movement because independence was not only about celebration but it included violence, abuse, dislocation and bloodshed.
From 1947 till today the dawn of 15 August ushers in with the deafening shouts of ‘Jai Hind’ and ‘Jai Bharat’. Among this cacophony, there are citizens, of the same independent country, that is taken back to the trauma and havoc that accompanied the independence. The harrowing storm of Partition 1947 that uprooted and dislocated […]
Remnants of a Separation is a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through objects that refugees carried with them across the border. These belongings absorb the memory of a time and place, remaining latent and undisturbed for generations.
Yarn: An Interwoven Memoir  is centered around the Partition and what it does to the women in the family, over generations. Pragya Bhagat’s family memoir follows the life of Pragya’s grandmother, Shyama. The author reflects on her own experiences with her grandmother, on family and friendship, on loving and losing. An Excerpt from the book… More than twenty-five […]
In conversation with Anam Zakaria, author of Footsteps of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians