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Launch of Partition museum at Dara Shikoh library on May18

A museum themed on the Partition, telling the story of the 1947 tragedy and representing the pain and trauma suffered by people on both sides of the border, is all set to open at the Mughal-era Dara Shikoh Library building on May 18.  This will be the second such museum after the Partition

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From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother s refugee journey

From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother’s refugee journey Tavleen Tarrant © The writer s grandmother, Abnash Kaur [Photo courtesy of Tavleen Tarrant] The writer s grandmother, Abnash Kaur [Photo courtesy of Tavleen Tarrant] Sometime in mid-August 1947, my grandmother, Abnash Kaur, then about 12 years of age, boarded a train with her family from Lahore in what is now Pakistan. The journey would take her to Kalka, a sleepy Indian town in the foothills of the Himalayas. She would never return to Pakistan. Like an estimated 15 million others, she was a refugee – forced to leave her home as the subcontinent was divided into two separate nation-states: Pakistan and India.

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