Author: Harris Khalique
Rohini Kohli/
Publisher: Alhamra
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 104
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9695160654
Description
These occasionally written pieces recount the feelings of separation and belonging, fear and intolerance, evoked time and again mostly through the memory of the partitions of the Indian subcontinent, first in 1947 and then in 1971.
Narrated in London, these occasionally written pieces present the simple stories of peoples’ experiences shaped by larger events and upheavals in the recent history of South Asia.
Exploring a range of issues surrounding political and cultural assimilation faced by the South Asian Diaspora in the West, Unfinished Histories falls in the twilight zone between fiction and non-fiction.
Contents
Introduction
It takes an hour to get there
Sing me a poem in Urdu
Viva Lahore!
Cobra bite Mr K S Aurora
Roshanara Bagh, Nazimabad, Hounslow, Wembley
Is there a direct flight from Jaipur to Birmingham?
Seeing ART at Leicester Square
None of us have lived in Kashmir
Is Laila’s nationality uncertain?
Sjon Nieuwenhuijs, our Nordic hero
Applying for a Pakistani passport
From East Pakistan to Aldgate East
Leading from the front: Amar Jawan Jyoti
Andaleeb Saleem pickets her High Commission
Afterword