The Indian Partition was biggest migration in the world which we kind of sweep it under the carpet. It's a huge event in history which has changed the present politics of the sub-continet. We are just giving that event its rightful due."
Soni Razdan is currently doing research for the Partition Museum that is being constructed in Amritsar for an intitiative started by economist and politician Lord Meghnad Desai and his wife author-columnist Kishwar. Soni says, "It's a museum at the Town Hall, given by the Punjab government, dedicated to the 1947 Partition of India.
While there museums dedicated to the holocausts in Germany and Russia we don't have anything like in India. We only have archives collaborating data which is all over the place. At the Partition Museum in Amritsar it will be shown what happened then but in an unbiased maner. It will be about love and healing as opposed to anything divisive. I am helping Kishwar in this. We are recording on tape fascinating stories from actual survivors.
The Indian Partition was biggest migration in the world which we kind of sweep it under the carpet. It's a huge event in history which has changed the present politics of the sub-continet. We are just giving that event its rightful due."
Soni says she's doing this because she believes in it strongly. "I have no connection with the 1947 Partition as my family is not a partition survivor. But my family is a holocaust survivior. My mother (Gertrude Hoelzer) came from Nazi Germany and was thrown out of her country. She was a refugee. I Also another reason I am in this is because I have a script which at some point I want to make into a film based around the partition. While doing so much research I felt this urge to direct this film. While it's not possible for me to travel to Delhi I am there whenever Kishwar needs me. I am there to create awareness about it. It's an event in history which needs to be documented.
Today what we are facing in Kashmir has its roots from there."
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