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Archive Preserves People's Memories of South Asia's Partition

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This weekend, Indians and Pakistanis around the world will celebrate independence day in each of their countries. It's been 68 years since British India was quickly divided along religious lines into two countries. All these years later, people on both sides of the border still have traumatic recollections of that partition. A new archive in Berkeley is collecting these stories. KPCC's Paayal Zaveri brings us the story.

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