This weekend, Pakistan and India celebrate their 74th Independence Day. Author @leilasidd13 reflects on the complex history surrounding independence and her own family’s journey to Pakistan and beyond. Read her essay in the @nydailynews (link in bio). “As a kid, I had to press my parents for information about it. Had I not, I wouldn’t have learned that my true ancestral roots were in Kanpur in present-day India, where my grandparents were from. I also wouldn’t have known how, with little forewarning or preparation, they had to uproot themselves with whatever belongings they could carry to the newly created nation of Pakistan.” #southasianhistory #desihistory #pakistanindependenceday #indiaindependenceday #britishraj #historicalfiction #yahistoricalfiction #ya #magicrealism #diversereads #ownvoices #ourvoices https://www.instagram.com/p/CSkRDQUpM-p/?utm_medium=tumblr
