The past is not dead. In fact, it is not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951) Amidst the clamorous turbulence, turmoil and tumult of the Partition, Basti sits in a sombre, solemn, albeit ruptured, landscape. At the outset, the reader encounters a mythic, almost mystic echo-chamber of voices of a reminiscing history …

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