![]() ![]() But through objects he kept all these years - a vessel and a yardstick - her granduncle revealed how he spent his childhood in Lahore, Pakistan, where he would fly kites and ride his bicycle. “There was usually silence about Partition, my family didn’t talk about it,” recalls Malhotra, 33, in a Zoom interview from New Delhi, where she now lives after moving there in 2016. ![]() Partition - the arbitrary imposition of new borders by the departing British Raj and designation of Pakistan as the homeland for the subcontinent’s Muslims - forced Hindus and Sikhs to migrate eastward to India, and Muslims westward to Pakistan, displacing approximately 14 million people and killing another million. In a rare moment of candor, he opened up to her about the partition of British India in August 1947. Then studying to be a traditional printmaker, Malhotra visited her maternal granduncle. It was a trip that would change the trajectory of her artistic career. ![]() ![]() In 2013, while on sabbatical from her graduate program in studio arts at Concordia, Aanchal Malhotra, MFA 15, went back to her hometown of New Delhi, India. ![]()
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