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Writers of Indian diaspora unveil the unforgettable historical moments of their native country. They delineate the difficulties of split family members, especially children and women. Anita Rau Badami is one of the partition writers who explore the relationship between the political and the personal, how ordinary lives survive in extraordinary tragedies and what is survival in this context means. In the novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? She deeply discusses the results of partition, especially with particular reference to the omen victims of communal violence which is one of the effects of partition. Badami unveils the difficulties of women victims who are imbibed to physical and psychological violence. The present paper analyses how women are victimised in communal violence in Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?