The Witnesses

India, 1947. Tajammul chases the peacocks in his parents' garden. Padma sits with her schoolfriends, sharing a packet of tamarind. Suresh runs errands for a political activist. Mohinder just wants to play the flute. All of their lives tremble on the brink. The Partition of India was more than a political event; it was a line carelessly slashed through farms and kitchens, villages and forests, dividing families, languages and landscapes. In its violent wake, almost 15 million people were displaced, many of them children who would grow up in new, transformed nations. But, as the people who remember partition slip away, their stories are also disappearing. The Witnesses collects together 30 true stories, filled with loss and love, drama and resilience, from the last survivors of one of history's great events, the echoes of which still reverberate through our world today.