They wonder what to be free from the British means.
Nisha and Amil feel helpless, struggling to make sense of what they are suddenly forced to face. The family makes the long and dangerous journey, by foot and train, from Mirpur Khas, in the Sindh province of Pakistan, to Jodhpur in India. They are leading us toward this-this slicing, this partitioning of India.” When I open a body up, I see the blood, the muscles, the bones, all the same in every person…Jinnah and Nehru, they are secular men, yet we need two countries instead of one because of religion. One day Suresh confides to his children, “Even though we had many Muslim friends and neighbours, it never matters when it comes to marriage…If someone comes into the hospital, I treat them no matter who they are or what religion they are.
Nisha and her twin brother Amil came into this world on the day when their mother left it. Their families, who were against the marriage, had ostracized them. Suresh and Faria married in secret and moved, from the villages where they were born, to a far-away city. Her father Suresh, a doctor, is a Hindu and her mother Faria is a Muslim. Nisha, 12-years-old, is half-Muslim and half-Hindu. This is the historical context for Veera Hiranandani’s The Night Diary.The story, narrated in the form of letters written by Nisha to her deceased mother, skillfully weaves the journey of Nisha’s family as refugees with the largest mass migration in history. At least one million people died, mainly killed in attacks by gangs from the other religion. in Economics from the London School of Economics.ĭuring the partition, an estimated 14 million people crossed the India Pakistan borders, with Hindus fleeing Pakistan and Muslims fleeing India. But I had never chatted about the partition with Gulati, who earned a Ph.D. The family spent their early years in India living in a refugee camp in Delhi. Gulati, a teacher I revered, had fled with his family from Pakistan. student at the Center for Development Studies, in Kerala, India, I had heard that the late I.S. In the early 1980s, when I was an M.Phil. I knew very little about the partition of British India into India and Pakistan, which lasted from about July 14 to November 10, 1947. By Annavajhula J C Bose, Shri Ram College of Commerce*
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