How lucky were the people who were able to visit their homeland after partition, the record is truly beautiful!! The objects may not be special then, but after migrating to India, they became of utmost importance, they became a connecting link between their carefree childhood and a new life in India. Malhotra has brought to life the different objects and the memories attached to them in this book. That was my limited knowledge about Partition and through history textbooks. My mother’s mamaji used to tell us kids that they had to learn a song in school which was in the honour of King George V. My grandma used to tell me, she was 7 years old when India gained independence, we were given a lot of sweets and fruits from our school, we never understood the real meaning of Independence or the horror of Partition. Our grandparents belong to the generation who have seen Undivided India and the division of India. Our generation probably is the last to know people who have witnessed the Partition from a very close angle and not just through history textbooks. I often used to wonder why our grandparents love some mundane objects so much! I never looked at the memory attached to it. The book is a collection of 19 stories, rather memories of people about their time in Undivided India and Partition.Ī partition record which is presented in a very very different angle. ‘Remnants of a separation’ is a beautiful book which tells us in detail about the Partition in material memory.
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