Tales from India’s 1947 Partition refugee camps
8 years, 10 months ago

Tales from India’s 1947 Partition refugee camps

Hindustan Times  

“ assure you with the utmost sincerity that distance has not made the slightest difference in our love and affection for you; that we remember you, and remember you very often, with the same brotherly feeling that for so long characterised our relations.” Tents at Kingsway Camp, Delhi, provided shelter to Partition refugees who couldn’t be accommodated in the barracks. The words are from a letter written to Amar Kapur, by his friend, Asif Khwaja on April 6, 1949, after the Kapurs left Lahore after Partition. The project plans to establish a museum, a ‘people’s museum’, in Amritsar, Punjab, by the year end, to commemorate the 70th year of the largest mass migration in history in 2017. An exhibition, ‘Rising From the Dust: Hidden Tales from India’s 1947 Refugee Camps’, at New Delhi’s India Habitat Centre will be showcasing selected items over the next few days. Rising from the Dust: Hidden Tales from India’s 1947 Refugee Camps Where: Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre When: 10.30 am to 8 pm; till May 26 Call: 24682001

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Hindustan Times  

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2 years, 7 months ago

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The Hindu  

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What does fiction tell us about Partition?
3 years, 7 months ago

What does fiction tell us about Partition?

The Hindu  

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From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother’s refugee journey
4 years, 1 month ago

From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother’s refugee journey

Al Jazeera  

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Partition of India: Objects that tell the story of a mass exodus
7 years, 7 months ago

Partition of India: Objects that tell the story of a mass exodus

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Aanchal Malhotra is a New Delhi-based artist, oral historian and author of “Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. In many Indian and Pakistani families like mine, “Partition” has become a word unspoken, shrouded in silence and sheathed with painful memories. …

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