This exhibition will showcase the story of the India's partition and pay tribute to those who, despite losing everything, bounced back to life. With the core idea of sharing the stories of the people using their history and photographs as well as materials from the archives to acknowledge the 70 years of partition, The Partition Museum Exhibition is kicking off from March 29 at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
Highlighting the three-day showcase, Mallika Ahluwalia, CEO, The Partition Museum, says, "The Art and Cultural Heritage Trust has set up the partition review. There are videos and memorials dedicated to the 70 years of partition to remember what the people went through while they left their homes. We have personal objects donated by the families of those who were present when partition took place. We wanted that there should be a memorial to the partition to record the experiences and lives of those who witnessed the transition so that the existing generation can be a part of the it."
Some of the objects on display include a refuge registration card issued to a family dating to 1949 when they entered to the refugee camp and a letter written by a father to his son portraying the uncertainty of reconciling with him. Besides this, photographs from the refugee camps showcasing the carousing conditions under which people stayed along with the letters written by the refugees' families to Government of India to report the missing person will also be showcased. These letters have been taken from Archives of India.
The exhibition is a part of 'India at 70: LSE India Summit', a three-day event organised by London School of Economics as part of India-UK Year of Culture 2017, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former British PM David Cameroon in 2015. Last year, the first-ever Partition Museum was inaugurated in Amritsar.