... 20,000 were seriously injured, and a hundred thousand residents of Calcutta City alone were left homeless. As Jinnah remarked " If not a divided India, then a destroyed India." At a more personal level, "Cracking India", a novel written by Bapsi Sidhwa, depicts the account of the violent racial religious clashes created by the partition of India and Pakistan as seen through the eyes of Lenny ... ...

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