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  • India at 70

How the horrors of Partition shaped independent India

Anil Dharker's parents loved the multicultural and multi-religious city of Lahore – but that was before Partition. As the world’s biggest democracy celebrates 70 years, he looks back over a troubled and bloody past and is hopeful of a much brighter future 

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Inside Cellular Jail: the horrors and torture inflicted by the British

The penal colony, designed by the British to break people, would form one of the darkest chapters in India’s struggle for freedom. Robyn Wilson meets prisoner Sushil Dasgupta's son, who describes the treacherous treatment and soul-destroying slave work his father was forced to endure during his incarceration

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