{"id":6121,"date":"2022-08-14T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/14\/independence-day-the-partition-baggage-young-indians-and-pakistanis-carry\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T05:14:18","slug":"independence-day-the-partition-baggage-young-indians-and-pakistanis-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=6121","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day: The Partition baggage young Indians and Pakistanis carry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;Some younger people are openly acknowledging that &#8216;my family carries this and so do I&#8217;.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The 1947 Partition created two newly-independent states &#8211; India and Pakistan &#8211; and triggered perhaps the biggest movement of people in history, outside war and famine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">About 12 million people became refugees. Between half a million and a million people were killed in religious violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As the two countries observe 75 years since their formation, the BBC\u2019s Nikita Mandhani spoke to young Indians and Pakistanis about how this history continues to impact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">India, the world&#8217;s largest democracy, is celebrating 75 years of independence from British rule. This is the third story in the BBC&#8217;s special series on this milestone.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Read more here:<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-62515589?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#8220;Some younger people are openly acknowledging that &#8216;my family carries this and so do I&#8217;.&#8221; The 1947 Partition created two newly-independent states &#8211; India and Pakistan &#8211; and triggered &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}