India is a Hindu country and in the eyes of those I grew up amongst I am merely a Muslim now-denatured by a place that is itself denatured. India turns seventy-five, but I am not invited to the party. She is the author of two books, Remnants of a Separation, published internationally as Remnants of Partition, archiving the objects carried by refugees across the newly made border in 1947, and In the Language of Remembering, on the long-lasting, intergenerational, cross-border legacy of Partition. Excerpt from a conversation with a Partition witness, Delhi, 2014.Īanchal Malhotra is an oral historian from New Delhi, India. How could we ever leave this land, then? Our home, our life-how could we ever leave it? We are within the very land.” We become Hindustan, our bodies mix into its soil. And when we die, we are buried deep into the ground we become one with the land. But look at us Musalmaans-we are born in Hindustan, we grow up here, we live here and we die here. Within her tides they flow, even if it is eventually into foreign waters. And when they die, they are cremated and their ashes are immersed into holy waters of the river Ganga. Our Hindu brothers are born in Hindustan, they grow up here, live their lives here, they die here. It didn’t matter that we were Musalmaan what mattered was that we were born here and here is where we would die. “My father used to say to us-Hindustan is our vatan, our land. His work The Anarchist Cookbook: A toolkit to protest and peaceful resistance is being published in September by HarperCollins. This is the most important moment in our history and this is our pivotal generation.Īakar is Chair of Amnesty International India. But India must first finish its adventure fully. We will get out eventually, of course: all humanity will. This cold wind has brought us into unfamiliar and dangerous waters. It is instinctive and that is why it has been difficult to resist. It has been replaced by a confident majoritarianism which expresses itself against other Indians, and finds pleasure and delight in the trauma it inflicts internally. The pluralist and progressive vision of those who led it into independence has been discredited and all but vanished. It is detached from the moorings it had been secured to in 1950. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.India is adrift today. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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