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MYSTERIOUS: 75 years of india partition how tech is opening window into past - You Need To See This

In this September 1947 photo, hundreds of Muslims crowd on top a train leaving New Delhi for Pakistan [File: AP Photo/Getty Images]

Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in 1947 with her young children, witnessing horrific scenes of carnage and violence that haunted her for the rest of her life.

Those stories were not in Singh Bhalla’s school textbooks, so she decided to create an online history – The 1947 Partition Archive, which contains about 10,500 oral histories, the biggest collection of partition memories in South Asia.

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