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Witness to Loss: Parasher's Partition Sketches

Sat, 20 Feb

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Online Zoom meet

A talk by Prajna Parasher followed by a conversation between Prajna Parasher and Aloka Parasher.

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Witness to Loss: Parasher's Partition Sketches
Witness to Loss: Parasher's Partition Sketches

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20 Feb 2021, 7:00 pm IST

Online Zoom meet

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Meeting link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82456573893?pwd=aytLcTBzbVFqS1lCaU5vT3lwMkNldz09

Meeting ID: 824 5657 3893 

Passcode: 733425

'This remarkable series occupies a unique place in our history, a place universally felt but seldom mentioned. S. L. Parasher was the Vice-Principal of the Mayo School of Art, Lahore, and Founder Principal of the Punjab School of Arts, Simla. Parasher spent 1945-47 as commandant of the Baldev Nagar Refugee Camp in Ambala and Gandhinagar Camp, Delhi. Wrested, like everyone else, from much of what he knew and loved, he spent sleepless evenings walking amongst the refugees and often stopping to sketch the visible evidence of all that was lost.

Has the Partition become a word whose meaning is bent by the ears that receive it? For young Indians now reaching adulthood, it could easily be an academic concept only, one as far away as Shah Jahan—important, but inaccessible. At a half century after Partition we are in a brief…

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