India, Aug. 14 -- Partition Horrors Remembrance Day confronts not just the British and Muslim League's roles, but Congress's own political choices that hastened 1947's tragedy, uprooting millions and leaving a legacy of trauma

On 14 August, India observes Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. It's a day to confront one of the darkest chapters in our history. The Partition was not merely a boundary drawn on a map; it was the brutal tearing apart of a civilisation, triggering the largest forced migration humanity has ever seen. It came with mass slaughter, abductions, rapes, and the annihilation of communities that had lived together for centuries. British cynicism and the Muslim League's separatism played their part, but it was also the Cong...