Aaditya Kumar > Aaditya's Quotes

“We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock, not even in November as he had hoped and promised us. Lahore was now lost forever”
― Aanchal Malhotra, Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

“Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.”
― Aanchal Malhotra, Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

“Memory dilutes, but the object remains unaltered.”
― Aanchal Malhotra, Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory