The Night Diary

by: Veera Hiranandani

For Nisha, writing in her diary to her mother at night of all the good and bad things that happened in 1947 India (not yet partitioned) helps Nisha know the mother she never had. Because her father was Hindu and her mother Muslim, they were not respected by both sides of the family, so they went and lived in Mirpur Khas after marriage. When Nisha's mother died, after having Nisha and her twin brother, Amil, their family stayed.

When Nisha was given a diary by Kazi, she made it a routine before bed. She always wrote in it (at night) after hours of walking to the border or just in her house in Mirpur Khas.

This book is narrated through Nisha's letters to her mother, and you will see life through the eyes of a 12 year girl in India, in 1947.