The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness by Anirudh Kala — thehungryreader.wordpress.com

Title: The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness Author: Anirudh Kala Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Ltd. ISBN: 978-9387693258 Genre: Short Stories, Literary Fiction Pages: 256 Source: Publisher Rating: 4 Stars Stories of the Partition of India always leave you heavy. There is a knot in the chest that refuses to leave. Even though you haven’t witnessed any of it, yet the stories have passed from one generation to another. The generation that witnessed and the generations that had to keep the memory alive, even though these memories are perhaps worth not bringing to the fore.And yet there is the question of never forgetting – memory that should remain rock solid when it comes to tragedy and pain and displacement. Homes were lost. Relationships broken. I cannot imagine what it must be like to witness what our ancestors did during that time and yet they did – they survived broken, fractured and somehow still hopeful.

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