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A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it began, it was difficult to interrupt or stop

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra Family History Love Memory Pain Remembering

I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic land devoid of geographic borders, ethnicity and nationality. In fact, through their stories, I imagined it as a land with mango orchards, joint families, village settlements, endless lengths of ancestral fields extending into the horizon, and quaint local bazaars teeming with excitement on festive days. As a result, the history of my grandparents’ early lives in what became Pakistan essentially came across as a very idyllic, somewhat rural, version of happiness.

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra Childhood History India Migration Pakistan Partition Partition 1947 Refugees

Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra History India Pakistan Partition

We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock, not even in November as he had hoped and promised us. Lahore was now lost forever

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra Belonging Family History India Lahore Loss Pakistan Partition Violence

Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra 1947 History India Memory Pakistan Partition Remembering

If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation, then the deeper I excavated, the more I found, and that too in innumerable renditions.

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra Archeology History India Memory Pakistan Partition 1947

Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out of the closed windows. We were hungry and our throats parched. From inside the train we heard voices travelling up and down the platform, saying, “Hindu paani,” and, from the other side, “Muslim paani.” Apart from land and population, even the water had now been divided

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra Delhi India Jhelum Migration Pakistan Partition Riots Survival Train Water

Migration is often accompanied by a feeling of unavoidable disorientation, and the circumstances of 1947 would have pronounced this feeling. In most cases, it would have created an involuntary distance between where one was born before the Partition and where one moved to after it, stretching out their identity sparsely over the expanse of this distance. As a result, somewhere in between the original city of their birth and the adopted city of residence, would lay their essence – strangely malleable.

~ Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra India Migration Pakistan Partition Refugees
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