Humanity amidst Insanity: Hope during and after the Indo-Pak Partition
This is yet another book on the partition story. Its conclusion: Partition was 75 percent inhuman and 25 percent human but the human aspects have not been memorialised because of the dominant hostile narratives that came after 1947.
The authors and the editors put their hope in the 25 percent of the population of India and Pakistan to save the subcontinent.
They recommend a ‘memorial of the 25 percent’ in the no-man’s land at Attari (Wahga) border while bringing out in sharp detail the ethnic and linguistic commonalities in the Punjabis on either side.
We may love to ignore this common heritage but we cannot deny its existence.
Presented here in the book are interviews with non-Muslims who fled to India in 1947 and 11 interviews with refugee families in Pakistan. They are simply moving.
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