Pod#166 - Aanchal Malhotra II - In The Language of Remembering

CHECK LINKS BELOW FOR FLOOD CHARITY SUPPORT   Aanchal Malhotra is back on the show! Two years after her first appearance, she returns to talk about her new book 'In the Language of Remembering' where she charts the tales of the subcontinents partitions through the memories of its descendants.    The conversation is as insightful, real, and relatable as it always is with her. Jump in!   Things discussed in this episode:   00:00 Intro  02:27 The process of writing her latest book  13:07 “Conversations cannot just be verbal” why she had to include visual observations  18:29 The imagined landscape, filtered through a lens of nostalgia and magic  27:42 Bridging the gap between fable and fact  39:07 The importance of creating an archive of common people  43:08 Are the descendants of migrants the only ones who care about the Partition?  47:20 Do minorities hold on to their cultures more strongly?  54:40 The risks of homogenising the causes behind the Partition  1:16:13 How does Aanchal live with the weight of all these stories  1:24:33 Outro   LINKS:  Umair's post about charities: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChuaVgWjGjz/ Shehzeen's fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lasbelafloods  Aanchal's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aanch_m/ Her website: https://www.aanchalmalhotra.com/ Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!   Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below!  SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpodSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupperRizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkharSarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan