Bruises of Partition

Description

This collection of poems explores wide array of issues dealing with the Partition of India and its social, emotional and psychological impact on the victims. It delves into the imprints of trauma suffered by a generation and their children, their constant pain of homelessness, nostalgia and feeling of vacuity. In recovering the voices of Dalits, Women and tribal, this anthology delves into their doubly marginalised status that the refugees suffered due to their marginal location in the social hierarchy. The creation of porous and unsustainable borders and boundaries across religious and linguistic lines created by the British colonial administration as well as some Indian leaders of colonial India eventually created multiple problems that has lasting impact in social cohesion and inter-community relation. Partition resurfaces again and again with problems that are more perplexed and its legacy is deep-seated.