Aanchal Malhotra

Biography

Aanchal Malhotra is an oral historian whose work on the 1947 Partition of India has been published as Remnants of A Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (HarperCollins, 2017) in South Asia and Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided (Hurst, 2019) elsewhere. Malhotra currently lives in Delhi, India, and is the cofounder of the Museum of Material Memory.

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NOTES TO SELF / Fall 2020

Aanchal Malhotra’s Notes to Self

By Aanchal Malhotra

One of the undercurrents of the migration narrative is the story told by the objects of exodus, that economy of objects transformed by the trip itself—relics of a former life that are sold or hidden away; keepsakes that molder, heirlooms...

Photograph by Aanchal Malhotra