• The Legacy of Exile

    Partition displaced fifteen million people and killed more than a million CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE / LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY What does it mean to be in exile from your home with no home to go to? And to have your mother and your father and your sons and daughters and your wife and other family members traveling there beside you? What if you are separated from them, or even lose them on the journey? On our screens at home and in our newspapers we are bearing witness to one of the largest exiles since World War II. I am attuned now to stories of exile and I…