The cataclysmic event is retold through the stories and families of those who escaped. Plus: Citizen Jane: Battle for the CityAssad has gone back to see his childhood home and he’s not finding the experience easy. “I can’t serve crying,” he says. I know, Assad: I can’t drive past my primitive house. Too many ghosts, and voices and smells from the past. Plus the new owners are bound to have done something unsuitable,like cut down my favourite tree or something. Related: ‘The wounds have never healed’: living through the terrorism of partition Related: Partition, 70 years on: Salman Rushdie, and Kamila Shamsie and other writers reflect Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com