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Laila's Partition In India-Pakistan

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The India-Pakistan partition was of great significance in her life, which proved to be the catalyst of her metamorphosis into an independent individual. It wasn’t just two countries parting but a partition of family. The events in both the partitions are similar to an extent like Pakistan was breaking away from a country it was connected to and India was reveling in its independence from colonization, so was Laila as she broke away from her family to marry a man against their choice, she also got freedom from her ‘colonization’.
She was not just in contradiction with the patriarchal system of her society but also the values instilled in her by her aunt which seemed to overpower her own thoughts and values most of the times. Her only saving grace was the western education she was given that helped her distinguish right from wrong and also to have an opinion different from her family’s. The family had always been an orthodox setup where the girls of the house were supposed to be married off at an early age lest they should pose a problem which would malign the family’s honour. …show more content…

She fails to realize that her decisions are in fact strongly affected by those around her and the traditional school of thought prevalent in the society in which she lived.
“My life changed. It has been restricted by invisible barriers almost as effectively as the physically restricted lives of my aunts in the Zenanas…After my grandfather’s death

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