A child in Wankaner
Meenakshi Bhat was eight or nine during Partition. Her town did not experience the violence she heard about elsewhere, and Muslim residents remained there.
An encounter remembered
Her clearest memory was of two displaced Sindhi women who came to her father, a medical officer, for treatment after fleeing Karachi. Their injuries and what they related about the violence against their families remained before her eyes decades later.
Memory’s final message
Her account also recognises that communities on all sides committed terrible acts. Looking back, she framed forgiveness not as forgetting, but as a condition for peace.
Editorial noteThis page separates personal observation from events the narrator heard about. A final record needs the interview date, source archive and precise transcription.