Suraj Prakash Talwar being interviewed by Srishtee Sethi

For someone living in the Subcontinent, there are never enough Partition stories. Naturally so, as the deaths in this manmade disaster were over 200,000 by even modest estimates. Twenty-five million were uprooted through the 1950s, or 1 per cent of the world’s population at the time. It made indelible changes to the fabric of our society and created permanent conflicts. It is a history that by no one account one can afford to forget.