Meghna Guhathakurta

The 1947 Partition of South Asia is usually associated with divisions, disruption, and the melancholia of displacement.

"It took me a long time to realise that my family and I, like every other citizen of the current state of Bangladesh, were directly and indirectly a by-product of the Partition to the extent that even our daily struggles sometimes evolved around it," writes Meghna Guhathakurta.