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What is the legacy of Partition, 70 years on? Listen to our latest annual lecture delivered by @kishwardesai of @PartitionMuseum at the LSE on 22 Nov https://t.co/qTS16mZF3N #LSEMMP
New podcast! 'Partition, 70 years on: what have we learnt from the division of India?' with @kishwardesai @MigrationUK #LSEMMP #ThursdayThoughts https://t.co/tljOnof81U
Thanks to @kishwardesai for an inspiring #LSEMMP lecture on #partition, storytelling and the founding of @PartitionMuseum at @LSEpublicevents this evening. Thanks to @susheila_nasta for chairing. Podcast coming soon on our website.
Full house for @kishwardesai's fascinating talk about #IndianPartition tonight @LSEpublicevents #Lecture #MuseumCurator #History #Museums #LSEMMP
'...the other side of it is I do believe there is a space for local narratives … because they tell a different kind of story and that is something we feel very strongly about' - Lady @kishwardesai @PartitionMuseum #LSEMMP
'A large part of these stories are published by academics and that's ok but when you put it in a museum suddenly people ask questions' - Lady @kishwardesai @PartitionMuseum #LSEMMP
'for me the ethical point was to try and tell it from their perspective... I think if you are doing a contemporary museum today it has to be about storytelling' - Lady @kishwardesai @PartitionMuseum #LSEMMP
'There are some very good questions around the ethics of representation and how you tell those stories' - Dr @susheila_nasta #LSEMMP @PartitionMuseum
'Nobody has yet evaluated the mental trauma of the people who went through partition... most of these people are now gone but the memories of partition remain' - Lady @kishwardesai @PartitionMuseum #LSEMMP
'Nobody has yet to value the mental trauma caused by #Partition. What people went through was so traumatic.' - @kishwardesai delivering #LSEMMP lecture @LSEpublicevents
'We also wanted to tell the stories of the resilience and the spirit of the people that made the two countries of Pakistan and India' - Lady @kishwardesai #LSEMMP @PartitionMuseum
'Didn’t we owe them something or ourselves this very little understanding in order to share their pain and not make the same mistakes again?' -Lady @kishwardesai #LSEMMP @PartitionMuseum
'Silence is not the way - especially today when we need to confront these very difficult issues' -Lady @kishwardesai #lSEMMP @PartitionMuseum
'A lot of people that are connecting with it are young people that have grown up listening to stories of it and they feel very strongly that there should be a space where these stories are commemorated' -Lady @kishwardesai #LSEMMP @PartitionMuseum
'we have to think of these human stories - this is what the museum is about - it is not about being a Hindu, a Sikh, a Muslim, a Christian or whatever... it is about the humanitarian crisis' - Lady @kishwardesai #LSEMMP @PartitionMuseum
'#Partition remains the largest forced migration in history. Long-lasting impact not just divided families, but sense of love, loss and longing - of divided cultures.' - @kishwardesai delivering #LSEMMP lecture
'The people who had lost their homes, their livelihoods, their mothers and fathers - their stories had been forgotten' - Lady @kishwardesai #LSEMMP @PartitionMuseum
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