Exhibitions at Amritsar’s Partition Museum and in Delhi give us the people’s history of ‘azadi’
2 years, 5 months ago

Exhibitions at Amritsar’s Partition Museum and in Delhi give us the people’s history of ‘azadi’

The Hindu  

Standing inside Amritsar’s Town Hall, where the Partition Museum had just opened, I felt overwhelmed. This year, for the 75th anniversary of Independence, the museum has decided to deliver the Partition narrative through an exhibition of traditional textiles of undivided Punjab, from August 14 to August 17. The Khes Project The aim, according to Kishwar Desai, Chairperson of The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust that set up the museum, is not just to document craft traditions, but delve a little deeper into history. Close ties The Partition Museum’s next mammoth project is the launch of another Partition museum in the capital.

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