A Kitchen Across the Khal
- by Nilanjana Bhattacharjee
- Fragrance of Peace (FoP)
A Kitchen across the Khal is a short story with three women–the narrator, her mother Rosie and her grandmother Champa– at the centre. Written in first person, the story is the narrator’s understanding of relationships and conversations in a partition-displaced household. It is a story of intergenerational trauma, conflicts within the household and the patriarchal regulation of bodies.