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Grieving through popular culture

Cyril Radcliffe, the man who physically drew the line separating Hindu-dominated India from the Muslim one in the west and the east, had the worst job possible

Tear-Drenched Earth: Cinema and the Partition of India
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Tear-Drenched Earth: Cinema and the Partition of India

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Tear-Drenched Earth: Cinema and the Partition of India
Author: John W Hood
Publisher: Orient BlackSwan
Price: Rs 910   
Pages: 207

More than six million Jews died in the genocide unleashed by the far-right German rule of Adolf Hitler. When World War II (1939-1945) ended, Europe mourned those dark years for decades through books, cinema and popular culture. It still does. This grieving through popular culture is society’s way of talking to itself. It acknowledges the pain of what happened and helps deal with cataclysmic events like the Holocaust.

Compare that to the partition of India into two nations in 1947. This last act

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