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Partition was cooked up by a few political leaders of the Indian subcontinent as a shortcut to positions of power, so that they could become kings and courtiers of countries, which would be, arguably, “free” and bear the names of “India” and “Pakistan.” ....
Songs give a voice to the timelessness of the body’s performative archive. Certain tropes, accents, and melodies recur. Melancholia’s effect is not merely negative. Rather, as viraha-biraha-biroho, it can sanction the development of alternative sense of community through what academic and poet Sudesh Mishra has called a “radical potentiality,” which may or may not be realised ....
There were also non-Muslims in East Bengal who had to stay back many didn’t want to leave their ancestral place. Many didn't have the material support to migrate with their family. Partition literature hardly talks about them. ....
The event will discuss the Bengal Partition of 1905, a second Partition of Bengal and the Indian subcontinent in 1947 and the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. The Salon will showcase aspects of these partitions, living histories that bind India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. ....
Through essays and interviews, Malhotra commemorates lives that were shattered during the Partition of India. It is an archive of fading memories, stories untold for generations, teased out by curious and gentle hands. ....