Tag: partition

Context is always missing…

Facebook comment: POST: As a non Indian, August 1947 is the destruction day of Punjab to establish two different countries Pakistan and India, hundreds of Sikh Gurdwaras and Mandirs were lost. Many Read more [...]...
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My grandparents and Partition

My father and mother both come from Pakistan. My father did not have to migrate (based in Lyallpur) but my mother's family did. My maternal grandparents are Kashmiris and lived in Amritsar. During the Read more [...]...
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World War 2 and Uncle Bashir

1. So dad, tell me about uncle Bashir, your brother who went to fight in World War 2? 2. He was my oldest brother. 1. Was this before partition? 2. Yes. 1. Where did he fight? 2. I can't remember if he Read more [...]...
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