British filmmaker Gurinder Chadha backs global effort to film Partition Stories
For Immediate Release The 1947 Partition Archive launches it’s first crowdfunding campaign in order to collect thousands more stories in 2014. New Delhi, India. August 5, 2016:– Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha will join The 1947 Partition Archive (www.1947PartitionArchive.org), an organization leading a global effort to tell the untold stories from survivors of India and Pakistan’s Partition. Partition […]
Thousands of citizens rally to preserve lost chapter in world history: South Asia’s violent Partition
Berkeley, CA. January 24, 2014– “I feel like a bottled plant,” relates Z. Ansari, on becoming homeless overnight in the wake of riots that engulfed his homeland during Great Britain’s accession from India. “I have no roots. I can be put anywhere.” As a Muslim, he found himself on the wrong side of an artificially and […]
Indus Heritage Day
For Immediate ReleasePress Contact: Neha Kothari The first annual Indus Heritage Day aims to educate the public on the intriguing ancient civilizations of South Asia. Milpitas, CA. April 13, 2012– On April 29th, three organizations, India Community Center along with the Pakistani American Culture Center and The 1947 Partition Archive are teaming up to debut a […]