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"Sometimes I think about why we get to be alive when so many others died for no reason walking the same walk, crossing the same border. All that suffering, all that death, for nothing. I will never understand, as long as I live, how a country could change overnight from only a line drawn."                                            - The Night Diary Title: The Night Diary Author : Veera Hiranandani Publisher: Penguin India Genre: Historical Fiction Book description and thoughts: Nisha is a 12 year old girl residing in Mirpur Khas with her twin brother Amil, grandmother and father. Being born to a Muslim mother and a Hindu father she has learned to accept people of all the religions as equals. But her family has always been an outcast sighting the interfaith marriage of her parents. The Night Diary is a saga of Nisha and her journey across the India- Pakistan border in the wake of newly independent India. The communal tension arising from the partition scars her li