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A review by quillify_
Basti by Intizar Husain
4.0
Actual rating: 3.75 stars (for that weird as hell description of a woman at one point)
Yeah, umm, I'm not okay. Partition and the independence movements always seemed so far away, back in the past. Something to be read in history books. But they aren't. It's not even been a hundred years. And the fracture's of a whole sub-continent into pieces, alongside entire cultures, communities, people, and the sheer mayhem that erupted. Just... god, I have no words
“Other people’s history can be read comfortably, in a way a novel can be read. But my own history? I’m on the run from my own history and catching my breath in the present. Escapist. But, the merciless present pushes me back again towards our history.”
Yeah, umm, I'm not okay. Partition and the independence movements always seemed so far away, back in the past. Something to be read in history books. But they aren't. It's not even been a hundred years. And the fracture's of a whole sub-continent into pieces, alongside entire cultures, communities, people, and the sheer mayhem that erupted. Just... god, I have no words