“This past year has marked 75 years of Partition, a process of fracturing that continues in the imagination and in memory,” parul_sehgal writes. “Each generation has posed new questions, searching for places where the stories can be found.”
Before it was an edict, and a death sentence, it was a rumor. To many, it must have seemed improbable; I imagine my grandmother, buying her vegetables at the market, settling her baby on her hip, craning to hear the news—a border, where? Two borders, to be exact.
But the unity, and moral power, of the genre derives from its sustained confrontations with the violence of Partition. The official narrative of independence was one of celebration. “Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labor and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow,” Jawaharlal Nehru announced on August 14, 1947, as independence and Partition were imminent. “Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us.
This is the work of the novel: to notice, knit, remember, record. The novel confers wholeness and unity to a story of division. The novel—it cannot help itself—reconciles. But it was only by taking a truncheon to the form that some of the greatest Partition fiction was created. Out of the rubble of the cities and the scorched fields emerged Saadat Hasan Manto’s glittering, razored shards. A recent collection, “The Dog of Tithwal,” gathers classics by the Urdu master of the short story.
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