First published in The Wire Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 In writing my first novel, whose protagonist is a young refugee woman from East Pakistan, I employed the device of coincidence to achieve a happy ending. Doing so wasn’t a sudden … Continue reading A People Ravaged: Peeling off the Many Layers of Partition Trauma