India’s favourite pop musician Daler Mehndi was recently nominated for the Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Associations’ Ice Bucket Challenge by a little girl from the US. Internationally known for his humanitarian activism, Daler Mehndi became the first Indian celebrity to have taken this challenge.
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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.