Natasha Japanwala is currently an undergraduate at Princeton University where she hopes to major in English. She can be reached at njapanwa@princeton.edu.
A book about partition-era trains filled with corpses has more relevance today than ever before and has one reader drawing parallels to the fate of children suicide bombers.
Nobody is comfortable calling such a scary place “home.” And so, in the back of our minds, we start considering other places, alternate homes. But my mind is filled with thoughts of those who cannot run.