THE PARTITION OF INDIA IN 1947 CAUSED ONE OF THE MOST HARROWING HUMAN CONVULSIONS IN HISTORY: OVER TWELVE MILLION PEOPLE WERE DISPLACED AMIDST A FRENZY OF MURDER, RAPE AND ABDUCTION ON A MASSIVE SCALE. FOR DECADES THESE VIOLENT REALITIES REMAINED BURIED IN SILENCE, EVEN THOUGH THE MEMORIES OF BRUTALITY NEVER FADED. URVASHI BUTALIA'S THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE WAS THE FIRST MAJOR WORK TO EXHUME THE PERSONAL TRAUMA OF THE PARTITION. AN UNDISPUTED CLASSIC,...