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Rama Lakshmi is Editor, Opinion and Ground Reports, at ThePrint.
She did her graduate program in museum studies and African American civil rights movement from University of Missouri, St Louis.
She was the India correspondent for The Washington Post for 27 years, and won the American Society of News Editors Award in 2005 for her coverage of the tsunami disaster.
She can be reached at Rama.Lakshmi@theprint.in
Hindus are not a protected group. When they are driven out for religion it is always discussed in divided form. Sindhis Punjabis Bengalis Kashmiris. These identities were not relevant. They were driven out for being Hindu
We don’t even know the tiny fraction of stories told by those who lived through the horrors of 1947 – in the Punjab, Kashmir, Sindh, or elsewhere.
This is one reason I consider the Partition Horrors Remembrance a meaningful step towards remembering past wounds as a first step towards healing.
There should be one on Kashmiri Pandits too. Also will the print dare do opinion pieces on them? Human interest stories? Or are those only reserved for if you are a muslim?