recording witness accounts of partition before it is too late

by MaxEntropy_Man Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:33 am

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/project-aims-to-record-stories-from-survivors-of-india-split/2015/03/13/a026e6fe-c944-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html

by Guest Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:59 am

Good thing. Hope somebody does the same on the Indian side too. The jews never let the holocaust be forgotten. They want to document everything, make it a part of history and have the future generations study it. The same should be done with the indo-pak partition genocide.

Here's a good documentary on partition. Again, from BBC. (Lord) Mountbatten's irresponsible, hasty and thoughtless political decisions caused all the confusion, and insecurity resulting in all the mayhem. Thousands of lives wouldn't have been lost if only he had acted with good sense. He has a lot of blood on his hands. It's ironic that he was hailed as a friend of India and a hero in India. I remember the time he died. Indira Gandhi was at the helm. The country declared three days or a week of mourning over his death (those are etched in the memory coz the govt run tv channels would air only the most boring and depressing music the whole time, nothing else). Why?

The callousness of Nehru and Gandhi towards the victims and what had happened to them is despicable. No wonder the congress govt doesn't want to talk about it and tried hard to bury it.

The fact that a lot of muslims stayed back in India and their numbers grew over the years Vs the very small percentage of hindus who stayed back in Pakistan whose numbers dwindled over the years, while they have a tough time surviving as hindus in that country says a lot about the two cultures.

by Kayalvizhi Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:50 am

Hindian controlled Indian gov is already falsifying 50 year old history of 1965 anti-Hindi agitation. A book published under Indian gov funding and used in CBSE schools shows cartoon of property damage during the agitation. It is true. Property was damaged. What the book does not say is dozens of unarmed demonstrated were shot and killed by police and army. It also does not say that 7 Tamil youths burnt themselves to death. So now the younger generation grow up thinking Tamils destroyed property but do not know the police/army killings and self-immolation.

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