Watch: Restorying Partition – Retrace

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Uploaded: 2017-08-15T19:00:23+05:30
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Description: Granddaughters Aastha and Bhavya's bedtime stories included their grandmother’s time spent in Peshawar, and because of that Peshawar felt like a place far away, belonging to a fairy tale.

Granddaughters Aastha and Bhavya's bedtime stories included their grandmother’s time spent in Peshawar, and because of that Peshawar felt like a place far away, belonging to a fairy tale.

Vishwajyoti Ghosh

Granddaughters Aastha and Bhavya's bedtime stories included their grandmother’s time spent in Peshawar, and because of that Peshawar felt like a place far away, belonging to a fairy tale.

Partition

Granddaughters Aastha and Bhavya's bedtime stories included their grandmother’s time spent in Peshawar, and because of that Peshawar felt like a place far away, belonging to a fairy tale and their grandmothers like princesses who migrated on a chopper with their pockets stuffed with cash and dry fruits.

The Wire’s #PartitionAt70 series brings a number of stories, through text and multimedia content, that will attempt at drawing a comprehensive picture of those weeks and months when entire geographies and histories changed forever.

Story Three: Retrace

'Restorying Partition' with Vishwajyoti Ghosh – a series of narratives that document the experiences of partition’s grandchildren who have grown up with its everlasting effects and negotiated with this reality in their daily lives. Watch ‘Story Two: Finding Connections' here.

'Kings change through good and bad times. In our time, Kings didn't change but the people did. And the change that happened hence, cannot be described.' – Mohinder Kaur Talwar

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