Gauri and Nasreen

'When your whole world gets turned upside down, it doesn't always happen in an instant. Sometimes its just a little thing - an innocent moment that marks the beginning of an earthquake,a tsunami, a volcano'
~Carolyn Keene

Two seemingly ordinary lives are destroyed because of something as superficial as the superiority of one's religion.

set against the backdrop of undivided British India, 1946
[#23 in Historical Fiction as of 01/10/16]