{"id":47500,"date":"2022-08-16T00:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/anglo-indians-remember-partition-never-forget-brutality"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:28:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T15:28:30","slug":"uprooted-by-partition-i-feel-i-dont-belong-in-england-im-a-very-proud-punjabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47500","title":{"rendered":"Uprooted by partition: \u2018I feel I don\u2019t belong in England. I\u2019m a very proud Punjabi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impact of \u2018traumatic period\u2019 still lingers with those who now based in UK \u2013 and their families \u2013 75 years on<\/p>\n<p>After living in Britain for nearly half a century, Pabitra Ghosh is still gripped by a rootlessness borne after being displaced from modern-day Bangladesh as a child.<\/p>\n<p>When a communal riot broke out in 1950, Ghosh, then five, fled with his family across the newly carved Indian border from East Pakistan. The train journey was both \u201cbedlam\u201d and \u201ctraumatic\u201d as they abandoned their home to start afresh in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/anglo-indians-remember-partition-never-forget-brutality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact of \u2018traumatic period\u2019 still lingers with those who now based in UK \u2013 and their families \u2013 75 years onAfter living in Britain for nearly half a century, Pabitra Ghosh is still gripped by a rootlessness borne after being displaced from modern-day &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,62,432,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47500\/revisions\/47515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}