![]() ![]() ![]() Noted by writers and readers alike for its perspicacious study of personal and national accounts, the book has been acclaimed as “one of the most intriguing alternative histories of the Partition” (Gayatri Manu). “Things will change,” she says, nodding.Īanchal Malhotra’s first book, Remnants of a Separation revisits the 1947 Partition of India through objects carried by people across the newly formed borders. She is about to move her desk to her room when I see her next. But the writer’s world spills over, with eclectic objects arranged around the house, including a tray of small perfume bottles acquired as part of research. It’s a perfectly solitary nook in an apartment that Malhotra shares with her sister. ![]() A square of light falls over it throughout the day and it seems as if the space has been put on snooze until the writing resumes. Her writing desk is a sheesham table pressed against the glass doors that lead to the balcony before us. ![]() It’s just before the city enters spring and the light is gentle as it fills the living room, where we sit down to talk with two cups of coffee. We talk with the faint trickle of traffic floating up, the occasional barking dogs. It’s a battle living on a busy junction in New Delhi, surrounded by the sound of the streets. AANCHAL MALHOTRA writes in the quiet, reading every word aloud to herself. ![]()
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