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Remnants of separation book5/22/2023 ![]() Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, Remnants of a Separation is the product of years of passionate research. A refugee certificate created in Calcutta evokes in a daughter the feelings of displacement her father had experienced upon leaving Mymensingh zila, now in Bangladesh. A notebook of poems, brought from Lahore to Kalyan, shows one woman's determination to pursue the written word despite the turmoil around her. ![]() A string of pearls gifted by a maharaja, carried from Dalhousie to Lahore, reveals the grandeur of a life that once was. They now speak of their owner's pasts as they emerge as testaments to the struggle, sacrifice, pain and belonging at an unparalleled moment in history. ![]() These belongings absorbed the memory of a time and place, remaining latent and undisturbed for generations. ![]() Remnants of a Separation is a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through objects that refugees carried with them across the border. ![]()
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