What happened next as authority collapsed and more than 10 million Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs scrambled to get to the right side of the new borders is recorded in witness accounts at the Partition Museum here in Amritsar. The mere decision to open the museum, the first devoted to the partition, was fraught. Then that effort became the 1947 Partition Archive, a geographically ambitious project in which scholars and volunteers have conducted more than 7,500 interviews in 12 countries and 24 languages. “We were friends, and then we started killing each other.”At the Partition Museum, curators say they chose to take an unblinking look at the horrors of 1947, though not one unsympathetic to the people who were swept up by the passions. “They took a 5,000-year-old necklace and said half the beads go to India, and half the beads go to Pakistan,” Ahluwalia said.

Source: bd News24 February 24, 2019 03:11 UTC