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The Night Diary
Through twelve-year-old Nisha’s journal entries, Veera Hiranandani’s The Night Diary (2018) takes up the effects of the 1947 partition of colonial British India into two independent countries, India and Pakistan. Nisha comes from a mixed religious background—Muslim and Hindu—and the partition raises pressing questions about belonging, identity, and safety. As Nisha and her family become refugees, fleeing across the new border, she records the journey in her diary, addressing her entries as letters to her deceased mother.
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