Practical exercise
Record a partition memory before it is gone
First-hand testimony of partition is disappearing. Anyone who walked across in 1947 is now in their late eighties or older. You will spend forty-five minutes today recording one such memory from your family or community, with permission, on your phone. The recording will outlive the storyteller.
45 min·starter
Now try it
Record a partition memory before it is gone
Stretch
If the elder agrees, send a transcript to the Citizens Archive of Pakistan oral history project at citizensarchive.org. They preserve such recordings professionally and at no cost.
Goes into your portfolio
An audio file of the interview, the photograph or hand-drawn portrait, and a one-page summary, all together in a folder named partition-memory-firstname-lastname-2026.