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Anchal Malhotra

Writer and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra's debut book, Remnants of a Separation is a human history of the monumental event of the Partition of India, told by unearthing the stories lying latent in ordinary objects that survivors had carried with them across the newly made border. Her recent, In the Language of Remembering, brings together conversations recorded over many years with generations of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and their respective diaspora. It looks at how Partition memory is preserved and bequeathed, and its consequences disseminated and manifested within family, community and nation.