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In her stellar debut book Remnants of a Separation (2017), Aanchal Malhotra had documented Partition via the lens of material possessions. With her latest n the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition, she has become a keeper of intergenerational histories, memories, and even inherited silences.
An archive of personal memories of historical significance, the book is structured as a set of 24 groups of emotional responses to the fractured recollections of Partition survivors and subsequent generations. To be sure, the responses are not all the same: after all, it’s impossible to erase the hint of sadness in a story of
