Though 17-year-old Viren Gupta admits he wasn’t a history buff in school since it involved mugging up dates, the Indo-Pak Partition of 1947 is a chapter close to his heart. “I grew up hearing about it from my grandfather, Dharamchand Lath. He had to flee as a 10-year-old from Jhelum to Gurgaon in a garbage truck. Penniless, he survived on leftovers for two months before he could enjoy a warm meal. He witnessed a lot of bloodshed, too. The Partition affected him deeply,” shares Gupta, a Class 12 student of The Sri Ram School, New Delhi.