The story begins with the Partition of India in 1947. As a ten-year-old boy, Dhawan was plucked from the comforts of a landed peasantry life in rural Pakistan in 1947. The Partition of the subcontinent set off one of the biggest massacres in modern history. Millions of people migrated across the newly drawn boundaries in a traumatic exodus that continues to shape the narratives of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
