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India's first Partition Museum opens 70 years after the Radcliffe line came into effect, dividing Amritsar from Lahore, Chittagong from Kolkata, India from Pakistan, and turning the moment of independence from colonial rule into a bloody massacre. Nearly 15 million crossed this imaginary line, Hindus and Sikhs fleeing to India, Muslims to Pakistan. For 70 years, that border has run through us, and within us.
Through 5,000 personal objects donated by those displaced by Partition letters and manuscripts, a coat salvaged from ruin, a refugee registration card the museum aims to acknowledge the momentous loss of life and amity in 1947, especially in Punjab, which neither India nor Pakistan have quite looked in the eye.
Hindus had slaughtered Muslims, Muslims Hindus, in a carnage of spectacular proportions. India, as a republic in the making, a secular nation where all citizens were equal, could not bear to remember the violence that midwifed its freedom.
(a)violence that midwifed its freedom. letter and manuscripts, a coat salvaged.
(b)Muslims to Pakistan , border that has run through us, momentous loss
(c) Even more unacknowledged has been the displacement in Bengal. Immediately after Independence, unsurprisingly, both countries turned towards the task of nation-building and survival, rather than look back in anger and sorrow. Moreover, unlike in Germany after the WW II, blame wasn't easily apportioned.
(d)more unacknowledged has been displacing in Bengal.
(e)Nearly 15 million crossed this imaginary line, blame wasn't easily apportioned.
Q2. Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon's hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it is about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.
(a) Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
(b) Other patients do not like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go