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August 23, 2006
"Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home" by Alok Bhalla
Alok Bhalla's new book interviews seven Indian and Pakistani writers about their depiction of 1947 partition in their fiction.
Keki Daruwalla's review in The Hindu
Alok Bhalla has taken the finest Indian and Pakistani novelists who portray the Partition — Krishna Sobti, Intizar Husain, Kamleshwar, Bapsi Sidhwa, Krishna Baldev Vaid and Bhisham Sahni. (I miss Chaman Nahal here.) Through detailed dialogues he jogs their memories, and how they crafted their fiction, wrestling with the Partition's moral, social and spiritual dimensions. For, the Partition spilled over into our souls.
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