Kavita Puri, Sam Dalrymple, Aanchal Malhotra | Partition Voices | Jaipur Literature Festival

Partition Voices: Kavita Puri, Sam Dalrymple & Aanchal Malhotra

Kavita Puri works in BBC Current Affairs and is an award-winning TV executive producer and radio broadcaster. Her landmark three-part series Partition Voices for BBC Radio 4 won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.

Sam Dalrymple is the Co-Founder of Project Dastaan. He has been published in The New York Times and Conde Nast Traveller, and worked with BBC Radio 4, The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Turquoise Mountain and Vagaband. He graduated as a Sanskrit and Persian scholar from the University of Oxford where he served as president and co-founder of the Oxford University Silk Road Society.

Aanchal Malhotra is an artist and oral historian working with memory and material culture. She received a BFA in Traditional Printmaking and Art History from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto and an MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University, Montréal. She is the author of Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition Through Material Memory. Malhotra is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository of material culture from the Indian subcontinent, tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity.

Kavita Puri's father was 12 when he found himself one of the millions of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims caught up in the devastating aftermath of a hastily drawn border. For 70 years, like so many, he remained silent about the horrors he had seen. When her father finally spoke out, opening up a forgotten part of Puri's family history, she was compelled to seek out the stories. Determined to preserve these accounts of the end of Empire and the difficult birth of two nations, Puri records a series of remarkable first-hand testimonies, revealing partition's enduring legacy. In Partition Voices, she helps break the silence and confronts the difficult truths at the heart of contemporary South Asia with fellow Partition-authority, Aanchal Malhotra and Sam Dalrymple, co-founder of Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that aims to revisit Partition memories and examine the impact of forced human migration through virtual reality.

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