Nisid Hajari, Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition (Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2015)   Told and retold from an array of intellectual and emotional perspectives, the story of orgiastic violence and chaos that was India’s convulsive Partition during 1946-48 covers many a bookshelf worldwide. The sordid narrative is depressingly familiar. Mob violence took hold; … Continue reading Eternal Legacies: India and Pakistan Divided