#PartitionAt70 Restorying Partition: RETRACE

'Restorying Partition' with Vishwajyoti Ghosh - a series of narratives that document the experiences of partition’s grandchildren who have grown up with its everlasting effects and negotiated with this reality in their daily lives.

STORY 3: RETRACE

'Kings change through good and bad times. In our time, Kings didn't change but the people did. And the change that happened hence, cannot be described.'

- Mohinder Kaur Talwar

Granddaughters Aastha and Bhavya's bedtime stories included their grandmother’s time spent in Peshawar, and because of that Peshawar felt like a place far away, belonging to a fairy tale and their grandmothers like princesses who migrated on a chopper with their pockets stuffed with cash and dry fruits.