![]() When we think of inheritance, we think of heirlooms and objects we can hold but not things that fundamentally change us. ![]() I make it clear that it isn’t the language with which people talk about Partition but with which they pass down Partition.Īs for the word inheritance, when I started working on my first book Remnants of a Separation, it became very clear that Partition was an invisible inheritance. With Partition specifically, you are actually putting the blocks for a new language to talk about this inherited loss. We are unequipped to discuss it, so we often don’t. We are just not given the vocabulary of talking about trauma or about historical events which are also personal legacies. I was always clear that when you speak with someone about Partition, you are building a new language that did not exist before. Edited excerpts from a conversation with Malhotra: ![]() ![]() The oral historian and writer has now released the sequel, titled In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition.įor her second book, the Delhi-based author spent years interviewing different generations of people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and their respective diaspora to examine the impact of the largest refugee crises in history had on them. In 2019, Aanchal Malhotra made a stunning debut with Remnants of a Separation that revisited the Partition through objects that the refugees carried with them across the border - the book was shortlisted for a number of literary awards. ![]()
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