Jamaal recounts to himself the events that led to him leaving India and migrating to Pakistan after The Great Indian Partition, which explains the title and allows for a narration in the past tense.
1953
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1995
1991
2022
2021
2012
2019
2017
1915
2023
2024
1983
1989
2001
2000
1979
1971
1936