Composition

The text is an excerpt from the essay “Blood” by Urvashi Butalia. The excerpt appears to contain the introduction of Butalia’s essay, as well as a small section about her own experience, but much of the middle and end of the essay is missing. It should also be noted that the essay later became the second chapter in the book The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. However, the excerp...