
EP 35: Partition with Aanchal Malhotra
Brown History Podcast
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What Is the Meaning of Life Like?
One question always led to another, andt always about everyday life. A misconception a lot of people have about partition is that it happened on one or two days in august, and then it subsided. And so what i was trying to understand is what your everyday life was like before partition, and what happened to it after. So is tring to populated the landscape with the things from that erstwhile landscape. The second chapter, i was so dark and so violent, i inearly stopped reading. And i didn't want to read chapter because it was just so horrific.
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