Looking for his roots in shattered pieces of history and paper, Delhi-based Gurpreet Singh Anand has a collection of over 1500 books on Partition, what he calls is his “Bundle of Pain”
It is common for survivors of the Partition to remember the harsh physical labour they did to survive after being displaced. But what do these stories conceal?
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.