Partition pangs: A shared grief, a love that transcends borders

“I heard this story from my aunt. Read: From Iqbal to Wo Lahore, Partition-era India revisted on Delhi stage Watch: Sonam Kalra speaks on Partition: Stories of Separation Using music and works of poets of that era, Ali Sardar Jafri, Ustad Daman, Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Amrita Pritam, as well as personal accounts of people who suffered Partition, Kalra weaves together an account that not only revisits the grief but also hopes for a better future – a hope born of the love that she believes people shared before 1947 and that she feels has survived the distance across the borders. One of the posters to be used as part of the project that captures the grief of separation and love for those left behind, of people divided by the partition of India in 1947. “I hope that in revisiting these stories through music, we are able to empathise, ponder and realise the way forward.Hopefully, a way of peace and co-existence based on a shared grief, a shared loss, a shared history and a shared love,” says the artist. He said it’s okay, these are my guests from India.” One of the posters to be used as part of the art work for the project that uses a line by Deepak Ramola, which reads that while people could brings a few things with them when they crossed over to the other side of the border, some things were left behind.