New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- On photographer Taha Ahmad's website, three-four geopolitical maps of the Indian subcontinent appear. They feature scribbles by schoolchildren of Preet Nagar, a village in Punjab located 20km from both Amritsar and Lahore. On one map, a child has marked "My House" in Punjab and "My Uncle House" in Pakistan. A dotted road connects the two followed by the following words "Love=Peace". For people residing in villages along the border in Punjab, Partition is not a distant past. It continues to shape identity, memory and everyday reality.

These scribbles are part of the lens-based artist's project, Drawn into Two, Which Way Home?, a look at the contemporary ramifications of the biggest human displacement in world history...