Ep 13 Aanchal Malhotra On Objects, Partition And Shared Histories

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Aanchal Malhotra is an oral historian and writer based in New Delhi, India. She is Co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory - a crowd-sourced digital repository tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectables and antiques from the Indian subcontinent. Malhotra writes extensively on the 1947 Partition and its related topics. In this podcast, she talks about the emotion that objects carry in the context of oral and shared histories, partition as a ‘process’ and the prolonged impact it has had on so many lives.