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Wounded souls: 75 years after India's Partition, survivors' trauma has still not been recognized

  • Written by Sanjeev Jain, Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India
Wounded souls: 75 years after India's Partition, survivors' trauma has still not been recognizedA refugee family that fled to Pakistan after the Partition of British India.Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

In his poignant, much-acclaimed short story “Toba Tek Singh,” Pakistani playwright Saadat Hasan Manto describes the plight of Bishan Singh, an inmate of the asylum in Lahore. In the story, set in a post-Partition...

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