February brings a triptych of partition, grief, and belonging. Trishna Basak’s translated story traces a woman’s longing to return to a Kolkata home lost in 1947; Sidharth Singh’s novel on Indian rock music opens a conversation on rebellion and resilience; a column interrogates the “trad wife” aesthetic and its cost to women’s autonomy. This is an issue about what we carry — and what is taken from us.