Bathinda, Aug. 7 -- The Central University of Punjab (CUP) has announced plans to start a "centre for partition and atrocities studies" to document memoirs of individuals who witnessed the Partition. Vice chancellor Prof Raghavendra P Tiwari on Wednesday said the university has already recorded the personal accounts of 10 such persons and more senior citizens will be interviewed on Independence Day.

"The population of undivided Punjab experienced the pain of Partition. Individuals who were witnesses to the division of 1947 are at an advanced age and society is running short of time to meet all those and record their accounts. Documentation of such experiences is required for future generations for the dark phase of modern history," said ...