Browsing Tag: Partition

Filled with sorrow are such tales from both sides of the border. Both nations celebrate partition with all pomp and show, with most having forgotten the other side of the coin – the last few surviving victims of the partition, an aging generation that witnessed the pain.

Now people who were children during 1947 Partition are in their seventies and eighties, meaning that these common memories are fading. A youth decided to capture the memories of victims and survivors. She has so far collected 700 Partition stories on camera and is looking to collect 10,000 such stories.

1947- a year that wrote the lives and deaths of countless people. A year soaked in blood and tears. For people who have witnessed this man- made disaster, it brings back blood chilling screams and distraught memories.

Dr. Shiva is a truly heroic figure in India, and in the human rights battle to save and protect traditional agriculture and food systems.

In the small town of Thao Kalsa, Sikh landlords, surrounded and outnumbered, made a grim decision. A young boy witnessed the result.

All around her was carnage. Clutching her three young children, she looked out the train window to see bodies strewed along the tracks. The memory haunted her until she died.

Anup Singh’s QISSA, a co-production between India/ Germany/ The Netherlands/ France, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival ("TIFF").

What was in store for future was not known. Their lands, animals and other valuables all were left behind. They had lost number of near and dear ones en-route..... Those who were sick were treated. However a new name 'Refugee' was attached by the volunteers from new India.

Let this Muslim introduce you to the man who founded the world's youngest religion, Sikhism and who had a profound role in shaping my Punjabi heritage, alas, one that was torn to shreds by the bloody partition of India in August 1947.

A 9-Part BBC Series on the Partition of INDIA ~ ‘The Day India Burned’ August 1947

....unravels the 1947 tragedy through a series of secret British documents, including the Governor’s Fortnightly Reports (FRs) and some of the most exhaustive first person accounts of survivors....

All of these stories, unique and yet similar in so many ways, point to the fact that these individuals are survivors in every sense of the word, having survived Partition as well as the loss of life and culture that accompanied it. These faces also remind me why I fell in love with history and everything that comes with it – languages, cultures and traditions, but most importantly, the people on the ground, who have experienced and lived it...

Siri Chund Malhotra could not control his tears of joy when he finally got the no objection certificate (NoC) to visit Swat, his birthplace.

There is mistrust, and each and everything that is wrong within the bounds of one’s country is imagined to be the conspiracy of the other. Had the partition been peaceful, it is safe to imagine that perhaps the mutual understanding between these two countries would have been much more amicable.