Panel Discussion: MEMORY & LONGING @75 years since Partition/ August 24th, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

 

Seventy-five years is perhaps the outer limits of average human life expectancy. In a way then, 75 years of India's emergence as a sovereign nation, marks the outer limits of its first citizens. As we begin to lose to time, those who experienced the Partition and survived, we invite you to join us in exploring the limits of this remembering and forgetting of the Partition, and its meanings in the present moment. We mark this moment with urgency, to speak about the Partition in little-known ways.

To remember and recount it as the Partition of so much more than just British colonial India, it was a Partition of regions (including Punjab), of communities, cultures, religion, resources, language, relationships and more. To challenge plastic political wills and reclaim it for us, the people who lived, loved and lost through it.  

Through this panel on Memory and Longing @75, we hope to unpack the lingering consequences and inter-generational effects of the Partition, across the landscape of memories and longing.  

This panel discussion is part of a three-day festival, titled 'Speaking in Forgotten Tongues: Films and Conversations on 75 years since the Partition'