when partition happened, a lot of women were dragged, raped, violated, killed. those who survived, out of sheer survival strategies, they started having a family with their rapists/abusers. after a certain amount of time, the governments of india and pakistan, both decided to swap the woman back to their previous households as if they're some kind of objects which can be flung over the fence depending upon the individual mood. as usual nobody asked for their opinion regarding this. going back to the previous household meant facing the trauma of slutshaming even after enduring rape and the abuse that followed. nobody knew what happened to the children born out of those violations. both the governments decided to identify the children according to their father's whereabouts. even if the child was a month or a day old, the women had to leave them back in the country where the child was initially born, because bringing the child with the woman meant the women being constantly reminded of her violation - that the rival community got her 'body' and the child will never be accepted in the society.
