Ritu Menon

Nov 3, 2023 | theweek.in | Ritu Menon

The first thought I had [when the bombardment of Gaza began] was to write to the writers I know, and whom I've been in touch with, and express enormous sorrow, very great sadness at what's happening. Of course, there is rage, there is moral outrage, there is a kind of ferocious despair at what’s going on. But I didn’t want to communicate that to them, what I wanted to communicate is great sorrow at what they are going through and have been going through.

Aug 14, 2023 | daily.jstor.org | Noor Anand Chawla |Ritu Menon |Kamla Bhasin |Urvashi Butalia

Britain’s hasty departure in 1947 from the Indian subcontinent came with a hefty price. The region was partitioned into religion-based territories, with India populated largely by Hindus, and West and East Pakistan by Muslims. This division of land sparked unprecedented communal violence and led to a mass exodus of people and a tremendous loss of life, property, and identity.