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SUMMARY:The Partition of India and Migration - Ms Kavita Puri\, BBC
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The Partition of the Indian subcontinent 70 years ago along re
 ligious lines\, saw the largest migration in human history\, outside war a
 nd famine. Millions were on the move in both directions. Muslims fled to P
 akistan\, Hindus and Sikhs to India\, as communal hatred erupted and peopl
 e feared being a minority in a new country. Many thousands of those who li
 ved through this violent birth of two new nations migrated to post-war Bri
 tain. But many are only just talking of their experiences seven decades on
 . In this lecture Kavita Puri reflects on why silence was kept in Britain 
 among that generation and why people are speaking of this traumatic time n
 ow. She discusses how even though many fled homes 70 years ago the loss en
 dures\, and so too does a connection to the homeland that was left. It is 
 a complex legacy that lives on in the second and third generations living 
 in Britain today.   \n\nBiography\n\nKavita Puri is an award-winning broad
 caster and executive producer. She presented the critically acclaimed Radi
 o 4 series Three Pounds in My Pocket about post-war South Asian migration 
 to Britain. For the 70th anniversary of the independence of India and Paki
 stan she presented the landmark Radio 4 series Partition Voices which she 
 is currently writing a book about. Kavita is also the Editor of the BBC fo
 reign affairs programme Our World where she has executive produced documen
 taries as Starving Yemen\, The Killing of Farkhunda\, and Freedom and Fear
  in Myanmar. She was previously at Newsnight.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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