Azadi Mubarak, Midnights Children from Peshawar to Delhi to Kolkata to Dhaka to Sittwe. The embers of the Partition linger as transgenerational trauma as a member of family whose cuisine reflects in the quotidian and its conflicts rage on as an uncompleted project.
The unpartitioned South Asia has glimpses in Karama and Bur Dubai in Dubai as the Little Dhaka neighborhood in the Little India district in Singapore. The sounds of the Bengali dialects from current day Bangladesh in the diaspora in Muscat, in the Hamriya or Ghala gave a sense of the similarities as well as the difference which a bloody partition instituted. The political trajectories have clearly differed, and the partition impacted the Panjabis, Sindhis, Bengalis and large parts of Mumbai, my home where Sukkur and other Sindhi names are prominent building names here. The best Sindhi fare can be found in the historic Meena Bazar/ Al Fahidi/Bastakiyah neighborhood in Bur Dubai.
The south was impacted as well, as Hyderabad is felt in Karachi and vice versa. The partition traumas are felt in the everyday politics of South Asia, one just needs to watch prime time news to realize, that the bloody chapter lives on.
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