This is the 70th year of India’s Independence. Every time we recall the ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech by the first Prime Minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru in India’s Constituent Assembly, we also recall that outside the well-guarded enclaves of New Delhi the horror of Partition was well underway.
Twenty years ago when the country celebrated its Golden Jubilee of Independence, Star of Mysore had written about “Trauma of Partition Recalled,” in its ‘Golden Jubilee of Indian Independence Special Issue’ dated August 14, 1997. SOM had spoken to three people, who immigrated to India after Partition — J.C. Gupta, the then Director of Glowtronics, K.L. Passi, a Class A Contractor and J.R. Sharma, CFTRI Scientist, who had all settled down in Mysuru after Partition. Now, twenty years later, there are very few people living to share the agony of those days. Hence, SOM decided to meet the post-Independence people coming from what is now Pakistan.
