As India mourns the deaths of the more than 200 people killed in July’s train bombings in Mumbai, South Asia again faces the possibility that simmering religious tensions may be to blame.
While the disputed region of Kashmir is a common flashpoint, for many of the older generation the hostilities between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs harks back to 1947 and the partition of the then-British India to the sovereign states of India and Pakistan.
In this week’s Audio Postcard, Adam Connors documents the recollections of colonal expats Rose and Eric Anderson, who as the teenage children of powerful families at partition had an incredible view of the beginnings of a still-volatile religious flashpoint.
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