Aanchal Malhotra

Quotes

• “Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out of t...”
• “We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when ...”
• “If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s st...”
• “A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the de...”
• “Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to ...”
• “Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.”