Day 56 of '75 Days of Partition' - The Permanent Scar: Revisiting the Radcliffe line in Bengal

Day 56 of '75 Days of Partition' - Meghashree Dev is a history graduate and is associated with The 1947 partition Archive as a Citizen Historian Intern collecting "number of stories". She was drawn to oral history as a means to documenting her own family history, but in the process has gained phenomenal insights into the history of Partition and Bengal.

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[nirmalyasengupta]

Bengal's partition story has certainly been under-discussed and over many years too. This is not to reduce the enormity of what happened in the Western India but Eastern India has witnessed heart-wrenching human misery.

Both my parents' family had been _refugees_ and we have grown up with stories of what they had been through.

My childhood has been spent in Malda town. I can relate to Ms Dev's presentation.