検索キーワード： 著者 "Aanchal Malhotra" すべてのカテゴリー

FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, A LUSH, SWEEPING LOVE STORY ABOUT A HINDU PERFUMER AND A MUSLIM CALLIGRAPHER, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF PARTITION "Narrator Deepti Gupta captures the deep emotional connection between the two young people, making listeners feel hopeful that, in some way...

Seventy years have passed since the Partition, and a momentous event now recedes in memory. Generations have grown up outside the shadow of the communal killings and mass displacement that shaped the contemporary history of the subcontinent. Despite being born into a family affected by the Divide, artist and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra too had thought little about the Partition until she encountered objects that had once belonged to her ancestors in an Undivided India.

""Malhotra's observations on the mysterious ways in which material memory works are evocative... she excels in weaving quotes into a cohesive narrative."" -THE HINDU ""An alternative history of Partition... Everyday objects can be powerful repositories of memories and stories, their very...