Title of Book: “The Other Side of Silence”
Author: Urvashi Butalia
Publisher: Penguin house India
Year of Publication: originally published 1998
“Urvashi Butalia” is an Indian publisher and feminist. Along with Ritu Menon she co-founded kali for women. The book is the product of seventy or more interviews that butalia conducted with sufferers of the partition and emphasises particularly the role of violence against women in the collective experience of the tragedy.
In “The Other Side of Silence”, Urvashi Butalia fills this book content by placing people with their “individual experiences” and “their private pain” at the centre of this event. In the last decade and a half historians have been researching on the experiences of ordinary people during the partition. According to Scholars, they have …show more content…
She took seventy interviews but mention only five to six interviews in her book, the worst thing she noticed while writing this book, that women and children were given the pathetic treatment. It is because women were treated as a object in the house and there were no opportunities given to them, they were living as a toy in their houses. This book is the result of pain taking, research and numerous interviews; the author focuses on such stories which can give deeper insight into the story of partition.
“The other side of silence” is the one which explores the stories, which people have in their mind and they haven’t shared with anyone. people were forced to change as their religion and for saving their lives , people changed their religions and they still regret their decision , The other side of silence also show , How the partition really happened , How a single man drew a line on a map and gave birth to Two countries . We people keep on hearing different, different stories from grandparents, who have seen the partition and still them in
Author: Urvashi Butalia
Publisher: Penguin house India
Year of Publication: originally published 1998
“Urvashi Butalia” is an Indian publisher and feminist. Along with Ritu Menon she co-founded kali for women. The book is the product of seventy or more interviews that butalia conducted with sufferers of the partition and emphasises particularly the role of violence against women in the collective experience of the tragedy.
In “The Other Side of Silence”, Urvashi Butalia fills this book content by placing people with their “individual experiences” and “their private pain” at the centre of this event. In the last decade and a half historians have been researching on the experiences of ordinary people during the partition. According to Scholars, they have …show more content…
She took seventy interviews but mention only five to six interviews in her book, the worst thing she noticed while writing this book, that women and children were given the pathetic treatment. It is because women were treated as a object in the house and there were no opportunities given to them, they were living as a toy in their houses. This book is the result of pain taking, research and numerous interviews; the author focuses on such stories which can give deeper insight into the story of partition.
“The other side of silence” is the one which explores the stories, which people have in their mind and they haven’t shared with anyone. people were forced to change as their religion and for saving their lives , people changed their religions and they still regret their decision , The other side of silence also show , How the partition really happened , How a single man drew a line on a map and gave birth to Two countries . We people keep on hearing different, different stories from grandparents, who have seen the partition and still them in