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Like any mother, she had found that her love for Astyanax was bound up in fear.
“It’s probably better to better to spend time with fictional characters than miss the ones I’ll never see again.”
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
“An old woman was shrieking with loud howls: "I don't want to go! I don't want to go to your India! Bring me my little one! My babe! I give a damn for your freedom, for your India, without him. I don't want a free country! I want my baby!”
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
“My mother did not fight and conquer her fears. She never knew fear in the first place.”
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
“Radcliffe announced his award. Bengal's culture, arts, dance and music were divided. Punjab's ploughs, farming, songs and romance have been carved up.”
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“Jawaharlal and Jinnah had announced the founding of two new kinds of democracies. Democracy, which is the last stage of human progress.”
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
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