Remembering the trauma of the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 through the stories of divided families.
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Anam Zakaria is the author of Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-administered Kashmir and The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Fo... ur Generations of Pakistanis and Indians.
Remembering the trauma of the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 through the stories of divided families.
A year after the annexation of Kashmir, the socio-economic situation has gotten worse.
Bangladesh, India and Pakistan each have created a very distinct memory of what happened 48 years ago.
Pakistan, India and Bangladesh each remember Partition differently and all seem to forget the role of colonialism.