“I don’t think anyone could imagine what would happen.” Veera Hiranandani talks to Writers Voices about her new book – The Night Diary – A young adult novel about the partitioning of India. ” My grandparents, basically one night said “We have to get out of here.” Packed bags, got on a train and made it to safety and they were very lucky. A lot of people got on trains and didn’t survive….Between 1 and 2 million people died ( during the transition )… an enormous loss of life.” Told through the eyes of a young girl who becomes “a refuge in her own country.”
“This is the time we need to preserve the history, to learn from it and to honor everybody who went through it; otherwise we’re gonna lose it.”
Three things in life are important; the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.
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