And ,, that's why I'm such a great admirer of you, as well. Partition happened. These were people who had lived in their ancestral villages and cities and homes, had never even traveled,had very little idea of what was India.
my Corridor but we still live in a world with artificial institutional devices that pretend as if pretend the partitions haven't changed and a lot of the punditry about about um distu ctionis precisely based on us the institutions that have set us up for a certain kind of industrial way of
I grew up in Delhi in a household where both my grandparents were refugees from Pakistan. So partition was not dinnertime topic. In fact, it was a lived reality.
If I were to number all my atoms, for example, there's only 10 different atoms that can be the sole atom in the left partition . This is what's called low entropy, or very high order. In other words, it's like putting away your room.
and probed it for ages. They partitioned this mind into four things. In Sanskrit, it is called and .
So I said that today I'm going to focus on reconstruction, but what does it mean reconstruction? We partitioned this general task into five sub-tasks. OK? Re-assembly, hole filing, reconstruction from drawing, colorization, and document enhancement.
And over the next couple years, I just grew the flock to 200 mothers, and I was able to impact the land really well. We partitioned it off. We rotate and graze.
in my life studying desks, and chairs, and file cabinets, typing pools, accounting machines, demountable partitions , steel- reinforced masonry, curtain walls, and, of course, cubicles? Why, moreover, would I want to be reading esoteric treatises like the marketing plans for Herman Miller Furniture in 1962, studies from journals
It's thought to improve insulin signaling because many people make enough insulin, but they're not able to-- it's not really communicating with the muscle cell or the liver cell to really properly partition that incoming glucose. And then you have elevated blood sugar and all the negative consequences of that.
To reset the particle's position, we can slide a partition into the box near the left-hand wall and push the partition to the box's center. The gas ends up trapped in the right-hand side.
All that was completely contrary to the actual lived experiences of 10 million people or more who were displaced by partition . Fortunately, a lot has changed in last 20 years.
She became involved as a citizen historian after she heard Guneeta talk about it at the end of a play on partition in 2011. Being a child of partition refugees herself, Reena finds her bliss in interviewing elders who were witnesses and survivors to this event. Professionally, she makes her living as a product management executive and lives in the Bay Area.
And the nuclear nonproliferation movements came from the work done in Hiroshima. Here's partition by the numbers. 14.5 million people approximately-- the latest numbers-- migrated in '46 through '48.
And as has been said before, there was not much in our textbooks except for the glorification of our political leaders. And the story of partition that I heard from textbooks-- and there was very little by way of really accurate history books at the time-- was very divorced from the reality of people on the ground.
But of course, in terms of partition , he did walk for miles and miles all the way from North-West Frontier region over to what's now India. Another impact of partition was art and culture. So here's a photograph of a music family, a music gharana.
And at some point the credits roll and we come in and-- It's on both screens simultaneously? Is there usually a partition down the middle and you watch two different things? There's a delay. The one screen is 30 seconds behind.
And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less, Is there a partition that would make sense?
organisms they have the division of labor between the reproductive and the non reproductive the non reproductive have to communicate to partition the tasks they have to do you saw there was a remarkable difference in size their reproductive individual the queen was much larger
So modern ecological concepts that you'll find in any introductory bio textbook, any introductory college course, the students learn about niche partitioning , competitive exclusion. They learn about on demographic analysis and population pressure.
This is the one where I can be reached urgently. This kind of partitioning is what highly successful people do. I interviewed a number of CEOs and successful artists, musicians, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, military leaders,
be a linear assignment problem. But because we don't have that partition ahead of time, it's a little harder. But most of the time when we solve this, it takes very little time for a good optimization solver.
This portrait that's hanging there on the wall not too far from the hospital cafeteria was assembled by kids who were in the hospital in summer And then you have a partition of your board into domino-sized regions, and then a single linear assignment
So I kind of was able to partition the engineering stuff into one book and the science to another book.
And I'm here to introduce two institutions that have been doing phenomenal work. The first one is 1947 Partition Archive, that has been collecting the stories and testimonies of the survivors of partition . And the second institution is EnActe Arts, that has been working on some interesting and creative ways to bring many of these stories to life.
And Bengal often gets less coverage when it comes to the topic of partition . It has its unique history related to partition . Can you share with us some salient points about that, Bangladesh?
And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less, Or do people talk about a partition along ethnic or tribal-- Not the way in Iraq that I saw.
This is the conventional way that we partition , that we classify, the various sources of ill health
And they also reveal how partition had become an established reality.
And although Germans may wanna believe their partition was made of iron, it was made of something all too human; behavior and belief.
So that goes against a partitioning , like in these boundaries that are not justified.
So when people talk about partitioning Syria and this kind of thing, it's just not going to work, because Syria's not like that.
So you could assume that it just partitions the calories it eats into fat and protein.
It's not a building you see with a lot of partition and a very, you understand, this is very open.
Please join, three of you. Let me do quick introductions to the unique guests from 1947 Partition Archive. I have over here Guneeta Singh Bella, who is currently the executive director of 1947 Partition Archive.
And during a trip to Hiroshima in 2008, she was deeply moved by the oral histories of those who survived the atomic bombing in Japan and was inspired to begin recording oral histories of partition witnesses. She is a condensed matter physicist by profession, and was last seen working on quantum interfaces at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
But from our oral histories, we know that every corner of South Asia saw some sort of influx or refugees coming in or out, basically. We don't even know how many people died during partition . I already told you the Japan story, so we'll skip this slide.
And when I grew up, I started to read various accounts. And if any of you are interested in partition , an excellent book by Urvashi Butalia, which is "The Other Side of Silence." She was amongst the first people to actually record oral histories.
been born, which is an ode to the glories of the old Lahore. And at the end of that-- that play is about partition and about an old lady who refuses to leave her ancestral home after partition , which was, again, a story I had heard many times.
I traveled to Bangladesh for a month to collect stories. When you hear the Bengal side of the partition , most people think, the Hindus of East Pakistan migrated to Kolkata, and the Muslims of Kolkata migrated to Bangladesh, and that's about it.
to Kolkata, and the Muslims of Kolkata migrated to Bangladesh, and that's about it. But that is definitely a major portion of the partition on the Bengal side. But there is another side of the story that are about the forgotten people.
And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less, but there was never any serious talk about partition , at least when I was there.
The Rise of-- I was hoping-- a Pre-partition Indian Writer.
There's certain properties of the whole that actually cannot be partitioned in that way and that's a type of non-locality.
The thing is that what you should do is carve out and partition , if it is a part of the weekend, just a couple of hours.
So, tell us about how this all started and where did the idea come from and how did it take this form? Yeah. So I come from a partition -affected family. My grandparents migrated from what's now Lahore in Pakistan to Amritsar in Punjab.
People don't think everything was affected. Everywhere, there was impacts of partition . But from our oral histories, we know that every corner of South Asia saw some sort of influx or refugees coming in or out, basically.
So I'm going to go ahead and-- So let me turn that next question to Reena. Reena, what's your connection to partition and why did you become a citizen historian? Yeah. So as it has been said by a couple of you, my family was also affected greatly by partition .
And there were murders and rapes. And a lot of what I had read about the realities of partition seemed to be repeated. And these incidents and the history of my family really troubled me.
Farhana, you have a unique perspective, particularly the work you've been doing with Bengal. And Bengal often gets less coverage when it comes to the topic of partition . It has its unique history related to partition .
So these are just anecdotes from stories. So these stories-- one of the cool things is not only do you learn about partition , but you learn about pre-partition culture, cultures that are now becoming obsolete.