![]() ![]() While Mayank was asking questions about old houses in Delhi, her grandfather’s older brother pulled out a gaz and ghara, which the family had carried across the border in 1947. ![]() Her grandfather lives in Delhi in Roop Nagar, which was once a refugee colony. The 26-year-old was prompted to begin this project in 2013 when she was visiting her grandfather along with a journalist and friend, Mayank Austen Soofi. It is a curious inspection of the objects that refugees took from their homes when they left in a haste to cross the border in 1947. Her seminal work, called The Remnants of a Separation, is by far one of the most intriguing alternative histories of the Partition. Aanchal Malhotra is a writer, oral-historian, artist, and most importantly, a storyteller. ![]()
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