![]() ![]() ![]() It was interesting to me that we get a lot of information of Muslim living (told through Nisha’s eyes), but we actually get very little of the religion Nisha and her family practice, Hinduism, beyond mentions of various Hindu gods. The story is very clearly detailed and told well. ![]() Along the way, Nisha questions people’s beliefs and wonders how people who had always been friendly could turn against their neighbors because of this event (the division of the old India into Pakistan and India). Nisha writes to her deceased mother the events leading up to the family leaving, the Hindu/Muslim religious tension, and their journey as refugees. ![]() Nisha is the narrator of the story, and it’s told in a very similar fashion to a Dear America novel: journal entries. The Night Diary is the story of a Hindu family who must leave their home in the newly formed Pakistan and travel across the border to India. during the Civil Rights Movement in the US. This was the era of Mahatma Gandhi, who later inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. Hindus and Sikhs fled the new Pakistan to India, while Muslims went from India to Pakistan. Rating: 3/5 In 1947, India, free from British control, divided into two separate countries: Pakistan and India. The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani, was published in 2018 by Penguin. ![]()
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