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I think the first time I found out ‘MDH uncle’ had a real name was at the Partition Museum in Amritsar. The full form of MDH is Mahshian Di Hatti Private Limited (I didn’t know that either! 
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Like many post-partition entrepreneurs, he didn’t even consider retirement.
)Like many post-partition entrepreneurs, he didn’t even consider retirement.
The partition left indelible scars on the subcontinent and changed us, as a people, irrevocably. A lot of people who lived through the partition, chronicled it, are now passing away after having lived such rich, difficult, full lives. It’s incumbent upon us to remember.
Read about what happened. Talk to your grandparents. Hold on, as fiercely as you can, to the struggle of healing, of growth that this country went through. It took superhuman effort to make this country somewhat of a safe haven, a land of hope. Don’t let that fritter away.
Time has a way of softening the edges of grief and blurring the sharpness of pain. That is welcome and necessary. Time also has a way of making us complacent and forgetful. We must hold on to every lesson and every memory we can, because they are the bequeaths we were left with.
As we content with another era of fractures in our imagination of who we are as people, we must remember what the fractures earlier looked like. It won’t stop us from making the same mistakes, I think, but it will force us to know the cost of them. Maybe that will help.
