Member Review

This is a very touching story and depicts the India's partition time with the softness of a child's brain for how one could have felt while facing something they were not aware of a bit but getting equal repercussions like others. Though it was not that simple and easy for people in transitions as it was mentioned here but still a glimpse for young readers is enough to get the idea. To go in depth of the situation would have been to much harsh for children to digest at this age for which this book is targeted to read for.

Veena is such a lovely character and her childish intriguing for making 'Rotis' (chapati) same as her mother and grandmother used to make at her left-out home in Sindh province of then India, now Pakistan. She helped the Kitchen ladies at refugee camp and felt proud of doing as close to what her mother made her learn.

It was so hard to even catch the memories trailed back to the times when this crime done by British to divide India and separate Muslim dominated areas as West and East Pakistan. For them, from their POV this was the result of the wrongdoings of Indians that they had to leave, so they spoiled it. But for us, Indians it was very essence of our freedom from the dominance of Britishers under whom our generations suffered, followed by centuries long slavery under Islamic looters. Author's family was one of those unfortunates who had to leave their native place which is in now today's Pakistan to today's India because top leadership of Congress and Muslim league decided to get their puppets hold the positions of Prime Ministerial affairs of both India and Pakistan respectively, as some beggar get leftover unused things from riches. For some people's selfish and self-centered thoughts and sycophantic acts, this Bharat had to suffer a lot in last 10 centuries.

One thing though that affected me lot in a bad light is that author had shown Kashmir differently, even when it was the very integral part of India, be it before Partition of Pakistan or after that. Then, what did she wanna propagate by mentioning it separately???