Almost 10 years back on a lazy summer afternoon sitting in the spacious veranda of our ancestral home in suburban Kolkata, my late grandfather in a casual conversation said something which has stuck to me till date: “While others can talk about it and be nostalgic, only people of Bengal and Punjab could feel the actual trauma of communal violence unleashed by the Partition. While people in other parts of India try to draw historical lessons from the partition, we who have experienced it believe that the best way to heal is to forget.”