Tuesday, May 01, 2007

News at Eleven: These extracts show us how in a few,

well-chosen words, [Faiz Ahmad] Faiz and [W.H.] Auden explain as well, or better, than novels or works of history hundreds of pages long do how Partition was not just a false dawn but a very bloody one, how an event meant to fulfil long-cherished hopes instead served only to dash and crush them.

from The Telegraph, Calcutta: Poems of partition

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