SINDH’S SORROW

NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT, DISORIENTATION AND TRAUMA IN SINDH MAKES US REVISIT THE HORROR OF PARTITION. THERE IS A NEED TO DELVE DEEP INTO THE SINDH STORY, THE SINDHI PREDICAMENT AND FORMULATE A SOLUTION

- PROF RAVI PRAKASH TEKCHANDANI, DR NEELAM MITTAL

Belonging… “may not be a physical space but a sense we carry in our bodies and pass down generations.” It goes deeper than the name of a place or “a stamp on the passport. It’s as deep as the soil of the earth”. (Aanchal Malhotra)

The Independence of India, coterminous with the Partition of the country and mass exodus of the people from their homes and hearth led to a pattern of violence and retaliation, anger and apathy for suffering of the ‘other’ and a sinking down to the bestial abyss. Partition of the country has been a black day in the history of India.

RESULT OF DIVIDE AND RULE POLICY