“There is going to be a lot of celebratory jingoism,” says Parmesh Sahani of the Godrej India Culture Lab. “We start to look for legacies that continue in peace and love, in people across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh,” he says. The kit is part of an exhibit at the Remembering Partition event. (Image courtesy: Aporajita Chakravarty)Artefacts from Amritsar’s new Partition Museum will be displayed, as will objects that Mumbai folk have contributed to the event. “We hope the event makes us recognise that there are differences but also commonalities across the border,” Shahani says.

Source: Hindustan Times August 04, 2017 13:41 UTC