Wandering through different spaces

 Wandering through different spaces- Memoir 2 

She questioned her privileges

Cultural and social space 

She has different kind of experience urban/rural, hindu/Muslim

Discussion about different institutions.

Much of what she saying is about her childhood. As childhood she has freedom to move in the otherwise prohibited spaces. She is negotiating spaces based on her own social , economic locations and as a child, when she turned adult she was prohibited to fall for a Muslim man there was never a certainty in her life.

His mother was not educated despite of her father being a well known educated man.

What she begins is that she has a very protected secluded life which feels like she being in a prison, she has no experience of reality. She herself said that she vaguely remember the things around partition. She is very much aware that there is much more happening around her but she wasn't affected by those coz of her privileges. 

It is unbiased kind of narrative portraying the pains of both Hindus and Muslims. There is hardly any kind of animosity against Hindus at time when she was talking about it. 

When she traveled across spaces she found difference in history textbook where the glorification of rulers were present depending on the ruling power. 

The Muslims conventions were not as rigid as hindu ones. She was deeply affected by this idea. She was very much aware of this changing hindu practices within her own surroundings. She also talks about hindu code of conduct for women. She gives us the details of how women were segregated. For her stereotypes were responsible for everything around - communalism. 

Partition is a continuous process - it is still existing in a different form, colour or structure. 

She is continuously connecting past with the present. She is also focusing on the rivalries around religion and ethnic identities. (108-109 pg)