Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: A painful chapter & an attempt to erase civilisational consciousness

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: A painful chapter & an attempt to erase civilisational consciousness

On August 15, India will celebrate Independence Day, the triumph of a nation’s long struggle for freedom. But on the eve of that celebration, there is a solemn duty to remember a painful chapter of our history: the Partition of 1947. qPartition was not merely the drawing of a political boundary. It was a human catastrophe. Punjab was divided. Bengal was divided. Villages, communities and neighbourhoods that had existed for generations were sudde…