From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother’s refugee journey Tavleen Tarrant © The writer s grandmother, Abnash Kaur [Photo courtesy of Tavleen Tarrant] The writer s grandmother, Abnash Kaur [Photo courtesy of Tavleen Tarrant]
Sometime in mid-August 1947, my grandmother, Abnash Kaur, then about 12 years of age, boarded a train with her family from Lahore in what is now Pakistan. The journey would take her to Kalka, a sleepy Indian town in the foothills of the Himalayas. She would never return to Pakistan.
Like an estimated 15 million others, she was a refugee – forced to leave her home as the subcontinent was divided into two separate nation-states: Pakistan and India.
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Marina Wheeler traces her maternal family’s journey through the tragedy of 1947 and comes to terms with her own past
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Marina Wheeler traces her maternal family’s journey through the tragedy of 1947 and comes to terms with her own past
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” said
American novelist and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner in
Requiem for a Nun. Marina Wheeler’s memoir of colonial policies that left Punjab (in erstwhile British India) wounded, reminds you of the famous aphorism: when you remember your past you come to terms with it.
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