![]() ![]() ![]() But when you will have to flee a country what will you choose to take, essentials or the treasured artifacts.? What will run through your mind when you will have to leave a land where you’ve lived for ages and move in to a new one? Remnants of separation is all about the memories and memoirs of those who witnessed that one single event which was the outcome of one single word and that one single line and eventually two different countries.Īanchal’s work is a collection of memories and memoirs of those who survived and crossed the border to reach India or Pakistan. Or it could be pieces treasured in memory of a loved one. Those pieces would have been passed on by our ancestors as heirloom pieces. We all have those treasured pieces,memories from our past, safely secured and when taken out, a wave of nostalgia would hit us. ![]() (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push() ![]() Malhotra’s debut book.The friend from the other corner of the world sent it as a gift through giggles bookshop. I was interested in knowing the stories from that miserable period and I decided to go with Ms. Kushwant Singh’s “A train to Pakistan” was the catalyst. I knew it as a terrible incident in the modern history of independent India blemished with stains of blood and marks of violence. To a South Indian, Indo-Pak partition was never a serious topic of discussion. ![]()
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