The Story of India: Seeds of Freedom (The Banyan Trilogy, Book 1) (The Story of India: The Banyan Trilogy)

Lahore, 1947. The Malhotras have everything they need: a shop on a busy lane, a house full of voices, a city they have always called home. Then a line is drawn across the map, and in a matter of weeks everything they own becomes everything they must leave behind. They reach Delhi with nothing. A patch of ground. A row of tents. A country that does not yet know what it is. And slowly, stubbornly, out of dust and rationing and grief, they begin again: a cloth stall built on credit, a boy growing up between two worlds, a notebook of daily prices that quietly becomes the record of a family. This is the story of India. The birth of a new nation, told through the eyes of one Punjabi family who lost a world and built another. Read more