Princetonians: Reckoning With History

Published May 25, 2018

RECKONING WITH HISTORY: No memorial existed for the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, one of history’s largest human migrations. Mallika Ahluwalia ’05, a New Delhi native, envisioned a museum, and today she is CEO and curator of the year-old Partition Museum in Amritsar, India. Ahluwalia often interviews aging survivors of the migration, which took approximately 2 million lives. Survivors “say a burden is lifting off of them that finally there is a space that acknowledges what they went through,” she says.  

READ MORE about Ahluwalia at paw.princeton.edu/tiger-of-the-week.

Photo: Prabhjot Singh Gill/AP Images

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