I watched Viceroy's House, a movie about India-Pak partition. Some of the details shared in the movie wasn't part of our history text books, but convinces you of the capitalistic intent for the partition. Yes, history is written by victors.
We rarely hear good things about Viceroy Mountbatten and his wife Lady Edwina, but movie shows them in a completely different light. Yes, movie showed the Viceroy's Heart more than his house.
Mountbatten is forced to implement a divisive solution and engages in a showdown with Radcliffe, whose line is supposed to have partitioned the two nations. While Lady Edwina ensured people in refugee camps were fed and medical services were provided to elderly and children.
In all a million people died and it is the largest migration (14million) in the history of mankind. 70 years have gone by, the wound is far from healed and we continue to inflict more on each other. Just a loud thought, what would have happened had Jinnah been assassinated instead of Gandhi? Could we have avoided the partition? Did you know the they Hindu-Muslim conflict was planned to keep India's Soviet leanings under check. Watch the movie to find out by whom and for what.
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