My Roots to Routes story started with my parent’s partition story. A different one from the one we’ve all heard about, the division of the Punjab, and the formation of India, and East and West Pakistan. My story is of the line drawn in Sindh, the line that separated the people of the Gujarat, from […]
Research studies have validated that trauma experienced by our Ancestors can live on in our DNA thanks to epigenetic inheritance. Read my account of carrying intergenerational trauma from the partition of India and Pakistan here.
My name is Shaz Khan (Shahzadgai Khan). My story is very simple but my parents’ is not. I stumbled across an article that I wrote when I was 17 years old for my English A-level coursework. It was all about “Being an Asian in Modern British Society”, which is where the inspiration for this podcast […]
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