Gender, Honour, and Female Futurity in Narinderjit Kaur’s “Who Killed Me”: A Study of Stolen Futures

The Partition of India in 1947 remains one of the most traumatic events in Indian history, marked by mass displacement, communal violence, and the loss of countless innocent lives. While many works have examined women’s experiences of abduction, sexual violence, and trauma during Partition, less attention has been paid to the destruction of young women’s aspirations and imagined futures. Narinderjit Kaur’s short story “Who Killed Me,” published in The Icicle: A Collection of Short Stories, offer