ADMIRING BORDER AND FORGETTING PARTITION: A POSTMEMORY STUDY OF CHOTODER BORDER BY MANJIRA SAHA
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Manjira Saha’s Chotoder Border captures the authentic lived experience of the teenage students on the border of West Bengal where they lived. Through drawings and narratives, these students portray the border of Bengal in a positive manner as a safe, secure, beautiful, and visiting place though the very connotation ‘Border,’ particularly in the Indian context, represents as well as evokes the memory of the past reality of Partition in 1947 that caused the division of Bengal and Punjab. Partition entailed mass migration, violence, nostalgia, and the new stigmatic identity of ‘refugee’ as well. The traumatic experiences of these refugees are passed on to the next generations. Yet the fourth-generation child- contributors of Manjira Saha’s Chotoder Border negate these common assumptions of carrying forward the legacy of postmemory by the ‘generation after’ and it is substantiated through their portrayal of the ‘Border’ as a place of happiness. This analytical exploration points to the social, economic, cultural, and educational backdrop of the children for the nullification of postmemory in the fourth-generation- refugee.
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