International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the depth of human relationship even when human fell into the entanglement of the forceful geopolitical border lines in India. Indian partition in 1947 separated many families for many years. Keeping the memory of the nearest and dearest one inside their heart, many people were compelled to live separately year after year waiting for a second meeting. Thus, an eternal bond of human relationship has a clear ringing message in all Indian partition narratives. This is because each Indian heart throbs with the nation’s long and rich tradition of humanism which teaches to embrace every creature with love and respect.  This paper interprets Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence in the Indian concept of humanism and brings out the irony of human relationship as one of the outputs of the partition of the country. The text takes us to the subtlest peak of irony when one becomes sensible and hesitant to knock at the door of his or her own family member. The narrative presents a macrocosmic periphery of human existence where man cannot be confined within borders because according to Indian concept of humanism man is the part of the supreme creator of this universe.

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