Thursday, February 23, 2006

Social space for connecting hearts, rekindling memories

We have finally got this pet project off the ground: an online social space for people to share their memories from the 1947 partition between India & Pakistan. We have all heard horrific tales from those times: uprootment, terror, homelessness, sudden change in fortunes, & more. But as the decades have marched on, there also surface fond memories: the house you lived in ( or your parents or grand-parents lived in), the neighborhood cake shop where you spent an inordinate amount of time & pocket-money, the evenings spent strolling the streets girl-watching, those hot sizzling summers spent lazing with friends in the dark cool room & nights motorcycling to the street-side gol-gappe wala for several mouthfuls of that indescribable taste!!

The 1947 wiki is the place to go to, to share these & other stories. Think of this as your digital nukkad, a space to hang out, share your memories, write on behalf of family, & hopefully watch new connections take place as people from the other side of the border respond & reciprocate.

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posted by aarora at 9:36 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger Sphere said...

An interesting initiative...hope you get lots of good Partition related contributions.

4:41 PM  
Blogger aarora said...

Thanks! As it turns out, the problem here seems to be that the generation that actually experienced the partition is not very web-savvy; their kids or grand-kids will certainly be, & I was hoping for them to be a conduit, translator of all those rich oral histories into a written record. Many younger folk have written to me that they love this concept, but they weren't even born at that time!

9:57 AM  

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