'The bodies were lying on the roads like leaves': My partition story

Iftkhar is a Muslim man who made a death-defying journey 70 years ago - a story he has never shared before. He told his son about his traumatic experience of partition.

Shared for the first time, these are the personal stories of horror and humanity from when British rule in India came to a dramatic and violent end, and two nations were born.

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