By Sejal Badani

Whilst her father falls right into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the kinfolk she’d fled years ahead of. due to the fact she left domestic, Sonya has lived at the run, freed from any ties, whereas her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created an ideal suburban existence, and her formidable sister, Marin, has equipped her personal profitable profession. yet as those ladies come jointly, their quite a few equipment of dealing with a terrifying background can not carry their stories at bay.

Buried secrets and techniques upward push to the outside as their father—the sufferer of humiliating racism and offender of terrible violence—remains subconscious. As his situation worsens, the daughters and their mom strive against with deepest hopes for his survival or dying, in addition to their very own demons and buried secrets and techniques.

Told with forceful honesty, Trail of damaged Wings unearths the weight of disgrace and secrets and techniques, the toxicity of cruelty and aggression, and the beautiful, freeing energy of conversing and possessing fact.

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Must be placed at a serious disadvantage in competing with the alternative route now offered from the Eastward without a break as far as Loodiana[Ludhiana]. . , from Lahore to Peshawar, and from Mooltan [Multan] to Kotri. 117 In order to efficiently extract resources through trade in the Punjab, especially on the Indus route, the state took up the construction of the IVR, which was an extension of the earlier built trunk line connecting Amritsar and Multan.

Viz the Railroad and the Steamers may be said with truth to be the crying wants of the Punjab in the department of Public works. . [T]he commerce and produce of these territories will be turned to their due course viz. The Indus and its feeders and to their natural outlet viz. the Port of Kurrachee [Karachi]. . The Chief Commissioner while deprecating any general extension of the Public works Department in the Punjab for the present would yet beg most earnestly to press these cardinal objects on the attention of the Government.

1 it can be seen that the capital invested in the railways as a percentage of the total capital invested in the public works in the Punjab increased by about 15 times over 25 years. This amounted to an increase of about 56 percent between 1858 and 1884. 4 percent between 1859–60 and 1883–84. 9 Source: Punjab Administrative Report for the years 1858–85. R a i lway s a n d D e v e l o p m e n t i n C o l o n i a l I n d i a 35 The chief reason why the British increasingly invested so highly in railways in the Punjab can be seen in the following extract from a letter from the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab to the Department of Public Works, Government of India: Indeed these two .

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