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Partition Voices
- Untold British Stories
- By: Kavita Puri
- Narrated by: Kavita Puri
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the 20th century. Yet their memory of India’s partition has been shrouded in silence. Kavita Puri’s father was 12 when he found himself one of the millions of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims caught up in the devastating aftermath of a hastily drawn border. For 70 years he remained silent - like so many - about the horrors he had seen.
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Hidden history
- By marjory hirschfeld on 01-18-23
- Partition Voices
- Untold British Stories
- By: Kavita Puri
- Narrated by: Kavita Puri
Hidden history
Reviewed: 01-18-23
Poignant first-person accounts of forced migrations—and attendant barbarism—after WWII when all Muslims in India had to move to Pakistan and all Pakastani Hindus and Sikhs had to move to India .
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