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The matter of authentically documenting a child’s encounter with various Partition-related events and ensuing violence has often been punctuated with a question mark. This feature series attempts to understand and analyze how children made sense of the Partitions in the 1940s and later, the 1970s, its aftermath, and their own drastically changed lives. Read the full concept note here.
Feature Essay Series
No Child's Play: Recovering the Child
from South Asian Partition Narratives


Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

Sukriti Lakhtakia
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

Sneha Biswas
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