The 12 Books of Christmas | Mishal Husain on Family, Empire and Why Partition Still Matters
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared where great minds meet. I'm head of programming Connor Boyle. We're looking back at some of our favourite books of the year in our 12 books of Christmas. Today's episode is with journalist and broadcaster Michelle Hussein. Hussein joined us alongside Razia Iqbal to discuss her family's story at the end of the British Empire in India.
These themes come from her book Broken Threads, My Family from Empire to Independence. Let's go to the episode now. Thank you very much, Connor. It's lovely to hear so many of you. Can't see you very well at the moment, but thank you all so much for coming.
It's an absolute pleasure to be here on the stage with Michelle. We'd never done an event together, I don't think. I'm being interviewed by Professor Ikvar. I hadn't quite thought this through fully, Connor, until you introduced her in that way, because I obviously know Razia as my longtime.
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