More than a million were killed and many millions more displaced by Indian partition. Photograph: Eloy Alonso/ReutersMidnight’s Children was published a few months before the 34th anniversary of Indian independence in 1981, and another 36 years have elapsed since then. None of this violence and pain has really worked its way into the official histories of Britain, India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. Siddhartha Deb is the author of The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India, published by Penguin. On this anniversary of the partition of India, another partition stares us in the face.

Source: The Guardian August 05, 2017 06:56 UTC