![]() The focal point of my own debut novel, The Parted Earth, is about how survivors’ stories are either passed down or forgotten, and the importance of preserving them. “How do we know this event except through the ways in which it has been handed down to us: through fiction, memoirs, testimonies, through memories, individual and collective?” Urvashi Butalia, author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, writes: They capture some of the most harrowing events of the era, but also the courage, sacrifice, and generosity of the human spirit. ![]() Partition literature encompasses a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction published in multiple countries and multiple languages.
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