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An Evening of Remembrance of Partition and More

By Gayatri Maini Singh : Partition - all of us have heard that word from an age that most can’t even remember; but do recall hearing it forever. The truth of the subcontinent and the manner   of creation of our country is so deeply embedded that more than 60 years later, it riles up even the most unpatriotic into taking a stance or someone least interested in Cricket, like myself, to switch on the TV for the recently held World Cup, for   the India Pakistan match! Such is the impact of the event on each and every child and adult. All of us from my generation (upwards of 40) have grown up with the facts of the division of our country along religious lines and have at some point of time read Khushwant Singh's “A Train to Pakistan”. Most of us living in north India have had more emotional connections as we have had a story or more recounted to us by grandparents, uncles and aunts in our extended families. But this stops at us, at the middle age that my generation is at,...