Is reconciliation still possible for India and Pakistan, 75 years after Partition?
Aanchal Malhotra is an oral historian and writer from New Delhi. Her books include Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided, In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition, and the forthcoming novel The Book of Everlasting Things.
Across South Asia and its diaspora, one can find innumerable such stories carrying the conflicting legacies of separation and attachment, loss and longing. This month marks the 75th anniversary of the withdrawal of the British Empire from undivided India, which led to the drawing of a border, the Radcliffe Line, between the now-independent nations of India and Pakistan .
In my own family, this desire to see what had become of their land was heightened by my work as an oral historian. My maternal family, now settled mostly in Toronto, hailed from Lahore, and before my first trip to the city, they recalled their life pre-Partition.
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