'The dark legacies of Partition have cast a long shadow on the lives of the people of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. the borders that were drawn in 1947, and redrawn in 1971, divided not only nations and histories but also families and friends.'

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                                                                                                                     The Other Side of Silence -  Urvashi Butalia

 

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My parents migrated from East Pakistan due to religious persecution and arrived as refugees in Calcutta. Millions of people migrated to India from East Pakistan due to partition and the Bangladesh Liberation movement.

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The partition freed India from British rule but bottled in the creepy development of religious polarization, border hostility, refugee issues, riots, cruelty over Dalits & Muslim people, and the rise of Islamophobia and intolerance has now into cancerous growth. It fostered by the Hindutva-backed political party that formed the Indian government in 2014 and besieged the country under authoritarian rule and a police state. The Hindu nationalistic fervour by the ruling party destroyed the secular principle that the fathers of the constitution believed. The world’s largest democracy is witnessing the peril of its structures with divisive politics.

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My stories reflect the current state of India. With the fall in press freedom and media controlled by the Indian oligarchs close to the ruling political party, my stories are critical of government policies. The rise of human rights violations, custody of civil society members, and casteism politics are state-sponsored. About atrocities in the border area by the security forces on the Muslim majority people; the making of the Hindu refugees and Muslim migrants as illegal immigrants in the eastern part of India; and The Riot in Delhi on the Muslims is the growing menace of Hindutva fanaticism.

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