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On Midnight s Borders: A People s History of Modern India
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On Midnight s Borders: A People s History of Modern India
Suchitra Vijayan undertook a 9000 mile journey over seven years to India s borderlands to write
Midnight s Borders: A People s History of Modern India.
India shares borders with a host of countries including Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and so forth. From the densely populated border that India shares with Bangladesh to the highly disputed one with Pakistan, she meets men, women and children who tell her how they live, struggle, fight and survive.
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March 07, 2021 08:05 IST
Travelling 9000 miles over seven years, Suchitra Vijayan tries to understand India through her boundaries with Bangladesh, China, Myanmar and Pakistan
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Travelling 9000 miles over seven years, Suchitra Vijayan tries to understand India through her boundaries with Bangladesh, China, Myanmar and Pakistan
“Panitar’s division is as cruel as it is arbitrary: here, the houses on either side of one dusty lane occupy two neighbouring countries. Where India ends and Bangladesh begins is a question confused by history, family and the border pillars themselves.” Panitar has a one-foot-high concrete block on the side of the mighty Ichamati river marked ‘Border Pillar No.1’. In her new book
New Delhi, India – Nisha Mewati and her family had been living peacefully in northeast Delhi’s Shiv Vihar area – a mixed-neighbourhood where Hindus and Muslims lived cheek by jowl – for more than a decade.
But last February, their world changed. “And it changed suddenly,” said 22-year-old Nisha, sadness flickering in her eyes.
On February 25, 2020, she was going about her daily chores in the morning when she heard shouts of “Jai Shri Ram” (Hail Lord Ram) – a Hindu chant that has lately become a rallying cry for murder – reverberating at some distance from her home.
“A Muslim family was being dragged from their house in an adjacent lane and beaten by a Hindu mob,” she told Al Jazeera.
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