JOURNEY TO FREEDOM

A beggar woman sitting by the railway line is beheaded; a child found with a piece of gold ti i to his arm with a note pleading the finder to look after him and accept the token of gratitud thousands marching silently to the border at t crack of dawn with belongings on their head. Such are the memories that stir as the 80-plus look back in first-person accounts for HT. ››

A beggar woman sitting by the railway line is beheaded; a child found with a piece of gold tied to his arm with a note pleading the finder to look after him and accept the token of gratitude; thousands marching silently to the border at the crack of dawn with belongings on their head. Such are the memories that stir as the 80plus look back in firstperson accounts for HT

GETTY IMAGE Indian refugees crowd onto trains as a result of the creation of two independent countries, India and Pakistan. Muslims fled to Pakistan and Hindus to India in one of the largest transfers of population in history.