Who among the following is the author of the famous partition narrative, The Other Side of Silence?
Amrita Pritam
Urvashi Butalia
Saadat Hasan Manto
Manju Kapur
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UPSC CAPF – 2022
– The book compiles personal narratives and testimonies of individuals, particularly women, who experienced the Partition of India in 1947, offering a perspective often excluded from mainstream historical accounts.
– Saadat Hasan Manto was a famous Urdu short story writer whose stories like “Toba Tek Singh” vividly depict the horrors and absurdity of Partition.
– Manju Kapur is a contemporary Indian novelist known for works like “Difficult Daughters,” which also touches upon the Partition era, but she is not the author of “The Other Side of Silence”.