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[b]Millions left for their promised new homeland with smiles on their faces as trains left both India and Pakistan.This is a train to Pakistan being given a warm send-off.[/b]
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[b][color="#FF0000"]In 1947, the border between India and its new neighbour Pakistan became a river of blood, as the exodus erupted into rioting.[/color][/b]

[b][color="#FF0000"]These pictures are by Margaret Bourke-White from Khushwant Singh's book Train to Pakistan, Roli Books.[/color][/b][font=Arial, sans-serif, Verdana][size=3].[/size][/font]

[b]Over 10 million people were uprooted from their homeland and travelled on foot, bullock carts and trains to their promised new home.[/b]

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[b]An aged and abandoned Muslim couple and their grand children sitting by the the roadside on this arduous journey.[/b]
[b]"The old man is dying of exhaustion. The caravan has gone on," wrote Bourke-White.[/b]
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[b]In a couple of months in the summer of 1947, a million people were slaughtered on both sides in the religious rioting.Here, bodies of the victims of rioting are picked up from a city street.[/b]

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[b]The massive exchange of population that took place in the summer of 1947 was [url="http://www.orkut.com/Interstitial?u=http://unprecedented.it/&t=AI7K-MxV3TOKPftg148x8mLDgMT7ZmBLMhVF6BHPOhTLLepkcou6qJpV89btnA5JBcIcq4CgFTjFWubyjMexdr4Egu0z4qwcLwAAAAAAAAAA"]unprecedented.It[/url] left behind a trail of death and destruction. The Indian map was slashed to make way for a new country - Pakistan.[/b]

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[b]The street was short and narrow. Lying like the garbage across the street and in its open gutters were bodies of the dead.[/b]
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[b]With the tragic legacy of an uncertain future, a young refugee sits on the walls of Purana Qila, transformed into a vast refugee camp in Delhi.[/b]
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[b]Men, women and children who died in the rioting were cremated on a mass scale.[/b]
[b]Villagers even used oil and kerosene when wood was scarce.[/b]
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[quote name='_poori' timestamp='1346007830' post='1302384456']
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poori darling.............. (.L@ ~`~

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[quote name='scotsman' timestamp='1346007922' post='1302384470']
poori darling.............. (.L@ ~`~
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dp marchu first [img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]
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[quote name='_poori' timestamp='1346008205' post='1302384494']
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intha asahyam ga untaava nuvvu.......[img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]

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[quote name='ChampakDas1' timestamp='1346008273' post='1302384499']
dp marchu first [img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]
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edo..pellanni paita saddukommannattu seppavu ga...[img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]

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[quote name='scotsman' timestamp='1346008296' post='1302384500']

intha asahyam ga untaava nuvvu.......[img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]
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[quote name='ChampakDas1' timestamp='1346008273' post='1302384499']
dp marchu first [img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2r5gm.jpg[/img]
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vadhu ani chepparu... ide bagundi anta... anduke inka ide :D

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