"I do believe this Silence is unresolved trauma. I also think there is a certain critical mistake in our collective attempts (where they do exist) at healing, where the focus has been to deny and obfuscate these aspects of the partition. We are terrified that if we talk about it, it will fuel another catastrophe! So we want to ‘leave it behind’ by not talking about what happened. But the fact is that collective trauma needs to be dealt with just like individual trauma, by recalling and reliving the events, by allowing for an expunging of emotions—all of it, the anger, the bitterness, the negativity, the sadness, betrayal, and loss, so we make space for healing." - Rita Banerjee ritabanerjisblog.wordpress/2013/06/18/my-untold-india-pakistan-story/
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:13:44 +0000
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