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60 years of remembering

When it was discovered that the train had bought a full load of corpses, a heavy brooding silence descended on the village...‘Train to Pakistan’, 1956 by Khushwant Singh Partition, the largest peace-time migration in history, which involved an estimated 14 million people and saw another mill ....Read more

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Daughter of a post partition mother -yes it did scar me though i wass born in the 50s.By: Anita | Wednesday , 21 Oct '09 12:13:10 PM Reply | Forward As a child i could sense the pain, the struggle ,and dissillusionment around me.My grandparents and parents reached india with just their lives, and were immidiately labelled refugees segregated from the mainstream.Must have been tuogh but yet no one talked about it.the issue was never addressed as if talking about it was pain itsef.History textbooks very briefly talked about it glorifying the so called leaders but no one dealt with the pain,the grief and the sense of loss millions must have gone through.That suppressed pain became a part of my very being and there are so many "what ifs "still in me.I still feel a very strong urge to go and see the home that was.The fragmented stories of how and what we were, still haunt. A godhra kand still sends shivers down my spine and depresses me and my inability to do anything about it makes me feel so useless. yes “a third-rate politician has more power to influence people than a first-rate artist”. Pam i knew you in ncertAds by Google

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