Siddhesh Inamdar, executive editor at HarperCollins India, says the book is as much about India's future as it is about the lessons drawn from the moment of the nation's origin. With the oldest interviewees in their 90s and the youngest just teenagers, the voices in this living archive intimately and sincerely answer questions such as: Is Partition relevant? Should we still talk about it? Does it define our relationships? Does it build our characteristics or augment our fears, without us even realising? It looks at how Partition memory is preserved and bequeathed, its consequences disseminated and manifested within family, community and nation. "In the Language of Remembering", as a natural progression, reveals how Partition is not yet an event of the past and its legacy is threaded into the daily lives of subsequent generations.
It told a human history of the monumental event by exhuming the stories lying latent in ordinary objects that survivors had carried with them across the newly made border.
"Remnants of a Separation" was published in 2017 to mark the 70th anniversary of Partition. "In the Language of Remembering" consists of interviews recorded over several years with Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, and serves as a record for how the Partition continues to impact generations of South Asians born after it.
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