Most refugees who went through the horrors of Partition as adults have passed on. The succeeding generations have long grown roots in India. They are now old-timers in cities where their forefathers had arrived homeless and penniless, and someday their grandchildren will grow up reading about Partition with the same detachment of someone never affected by it. The surgical scars, however, remain—and will remain as long as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh exist as separate countries. The scars, considered together, are called the Radcliffe Line. In the places it runs through, the line is referred
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