[[This newsletter contains some references and spoilers to Ms Marvel Episode 5, if you aren’t caught up!]] I’m writing on behalf of myself, as an artist & person. My views and history are solely mine & not the property of any company! - I remember that my history textbooks rarely covered South Asia, and when they did it was reduced to a one sentence statement about how Gandhi led a nonviolence movement that ended British colonization. When you actually learn the history, you realize how that does not encapsulate what happened. Partition was one of the bloodiest humanitarian crises of the modern era, resulting in 14 million refugees and 2-3 million people being killed due to retributive genocides. The pain of Partition, and its silences, can still be felt today. And yet, most people have no idea what it is. It begs the question—what is considered nonviolent? Whose bodies do we look away from when violence occurs? Whose bodies are made to endure what? And whose bodies are silenced, forgotten about in history books, rewritten?
some thoughts on Partition
some thoughts on Partition
some thoughts on Partition
[[This newsletter contains some references and spoilers to Ms Marvel Episode 5, if you aren’t caught up!]] I’m writing on behalf of myself, as an artist & person. My views and history are solely mine & not the property of any company! - I remember that my history textbooks rarely covered South Asia, and when they did it was reduced to a one sentence statement about how Gandhi led a nonviolence movement that ended British colonization. When you actually learn the history, you realize how that does not encapsulate what happened. Partition was one of the bloodiest humanitarian crises of the modern era, resulting in 14 million refugees and 2-3 million people being killed due to retributive genocides. The pain of Partition, and its silences, can still be felt today. And yet, most people have no idea what it is. It begs the question—what is considered nonviolent? Whose bodies do we look away from when violence occurs? Whose bodies are made to endure what? And whose bodies are silenced, forgotten about in history books, rewritten?