75 years of Partition: Telling tales of displacement through

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

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