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PARTITION REMEMBERED
The New Indian Express Mysuru
|August 15, 2025
AS India marks Partition Horrors Remembrance Day on August 14, the country confronts one of the darkest chapters of its independence—the violent and chaotic Partition of 1947 that created two nations, India and Pakistan, at a staggering human cost.
The Partition led to the largest mass migration of the 20th century. An estimated 15 million people were displaced, forced to flee across hastily drawn borders amid sectarian violence and fear. Entire families left behind homes, histories, and generations of shared life. Along the way, unspeakable horrors unfolded, mobs lynched innocents, women were raped or committed suicide to escape abduction, and "ghost trains" carrying corpses arrived at railway stations in chilling silence. The death toll is estimated to be over a million.
This story is from the August 15, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Mysuru.
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