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Sandip Roy: A Museum for the Partition

Amar Kapoor kept a diary after migrating to Delhi following the blood-drenched summer of 1947 from Lahore via the border city of Amritsar, where the family spent three months on the veranda of a house.
Courtesy of the Partition Museum/modified from original
Amar Kapoor's diary

This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence.  But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies. 

The partition of India into two countries – India and Pakistan.  

It was the greatest human displacement of the 20th century. Over 10 million rendered homeless.  Some say 2 million died.  As Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims turned on each other.