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The book of memory

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. Commissioning a writer to trace the family history, the book was their pilot and an experiment, and a “mind-blowing experience” with the depth and breadth of stories and memories they gathered. Of her first book, she says, “This is not a tribute to the Sindhi community but a way to say, enough time has passed.” Partition is a theme that has fuelled personal histories. “We tell our stories because we don’t want to be forgotten,” says Anusha Yadav of the India Memory Project, a 13-year-old online repository of personal histories from the subcontinent sourced via voluntary submissions. “While there are other recipe journals in the market, what makes this one different is that it is designed from an emotional/storytelling lens where there is a space for something called an ‘heirloom indicator’ in which you can mark which generation the recipe belongs to, whose kitchen it comes from and the memories associated with it,” says Taneja.

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