{"id":102681,"date":"2023-01-13T13:49:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=102681"},"modified":"2023-01-13T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:19:54","slug":"partition-an-oral-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/partition-an-oral-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Partition: An Oral History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102682 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partition-stories.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partition-stories.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partition-stories-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partition-stories-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partition-stories-525x350.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indians have a tendency to claim ownership of the partition, and that needs to change,&#8221; said Anchal Malhotra, renowned author of partition stories, while discussing her work &#8220;The Book of Everlasting Things&#8221; with Dr Meena T Pillai. The stories of partition are not heard widely because the victims did not feel the need to share the stories with others since they also went through the same things. &#8220;Every event in history should be viewed from the perspective of people,&#8221; added Malhotra while answering questions from the audience. &#8220;Violence, massacre, rape, etc. belong to only one part of partition,&#8221; the author further added while explaining the characters of the story and what they reflected about the effects of partition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Indians have a tendency to claim ownership of the partition, and that needs to change,&#8221; said Anchal Malhotra, renowned author of partition stories, while discussing her work &#8220;The Book of Everlasting Things&#8221; with Dr Meena T Pillai. The stories of partition are not heard widely because the victims did not feel the need to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":102682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102684,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102681\/revisions\/102684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}