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Hindustan Times | ByRehana Munir
Aug 15, 2018 02:41 PM IST

What unites the generation of neighbours twice removed from Partition?

The year 1947. A permanent bookmark in the history of the subcontinent. A night of mourning. A morning of hope. Manto’s Mottled Dawn. Nehru’s tryst with destiny. The day that Iqbal wrote of; that Gandhi marched towards. Seventy-one years on, the bookmark is firmly in place. The two nations born that faraway August, separated at birth, have weathered wars and assaults, witnessed violence, enmity and prejudice. But that’s not all we’ve inherited. Somewhere under the debris of modern history lies a shared past. And my generation of 30-somethings, when we want to look for it, finds it with ease.

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