To commemorate the day, Punjab government launched 'Chalo Amritsar' — an online campaign calling for registrations from survivors of partition and their families living across the world
Over 70 years after the country witnessed a massive displacement of millions of people across the border, country's first Partition Museum is set to bring alive the history of the traumatic event. The Museum will be formally inaugurated in Amritsar on August 17.
The day would be commemorated as 'Partition Remembrance Day', to mark the announcement made in 1947, which led to the partition. It will also be a tribute to those, particularly from Punjab and Bengal, who lost everything to the partition but went on to build a new India with their indomitable spirit and resilience.
To commemorate the day, Punjab government launched 'Chalo Amritsar' — an online campaign calling for registrations from survivors of partition and their families living across the world. "People from around the world who have lived to recount the trauma would be honoured on the occasion," said Mallika Ahluwalia, CEO, Partition Museum which has been set up by Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust.
An appeal has been made to partition survivors and their families across the world to share their personal archives and memories of the early days, so that they can be preserved at the Museum. People can also send in their written or recorded memories which can be displayed in the Museum, along with the other exhibits.
"It is the first and the only museum which will showcase history of the biggest human migration ever," said Punjab Tourism and Culture Minister, Navjot Singh Siddhu, highlighting that museum will boost tourism.
The museum will exhibit official documents and carefully curated stories from Partition survivors. Being created as a people's museum, it has access to over 5,000 items of oral histories, documents, artefacts, art objects, which will be displayed from time to time.
"The inauguration will be attended by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. Several high level national and international dignitaries, apart from NRIs from partition-affected families, are expected to be present at the inauguration," said noted author and columnist, who is also the Chair of the Trust, Kishwar Desai.
The inaugural event will include nostalgic recreation of the pre-1947 streets of Amritsar and Lahore, with street food and other memorabilia. Teamworks, which organizes the Jaipur Literature Festival, will partner with The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust for the event.
Author Kuldip Nayar, designer Ritu Kumar, academician Lord Meghnad Desai, and screenplay writer Prasoon Joshi are some of members and supporters of the Trust. Its academic advisors include London School of Economics and Cambridge University, UK, and documents and exhibits are being contributed to it from various universities and archives in India and UK.
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