Sarbjit Dhaliwal: Will the former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh share his experiences, good or bad, of partition of the country with the people of the country? If he agrees to record his memories of the partition, it would be big achievement of the Guru Nanak Dev University which in collaboration with the Stanford University and Berkley University, is video recording memories, experiences of the tragedy of the partition.

Sarbjit Dhaliwal: Will the former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh share his experiences, good or bad, of partition of the country with the people of the country? If he agrees to record his memories of the partition, it would be big achievement of the Guru Nanak Dev University which in collaboration with the Stanford University and Berkley University, is video recording memories, experiences of the tragedy of the partition.

We have already interviewed more than 200 people, who were eye witness to the holocaust of the partition. "People who were uprooted during partition and migrated from Pakistan to India in 1947 have shared their good and bad memories of the division of the country", said Dr Balwant Singh, Head of the Centre on Studies in Sri Guru Granth Sahib. He said that one wing of the Centre that is dedicated to the culture and history of the State was handling this project.

"We would soon publishing the experiences of 20 to 25 eyewitness. In fact, we have already given the draft to the printer", said Dr Balwant Singh.

Dr Manmohan Singh and his other family members migrated Gah village, which is now in from Pakistan. He studied in Primary School of the Gah village. He was invited a number of times to visit the village. But he did not, perhaps, because he had bitter memories of the partition.

About the project, Dr Balwant Singh said that " we want to tell the history of the partition through people who have the firsthand account". So many books have been written on the partition by historians. They have their own take on the partition. "But we want to create the history of the partition through the people", said Dr Balwant Singh.

During the partition, lakhs of people were killed in the communal violence. Millions of people migrated from Pakistan to India and from India to Pakistan. Thousands of women committed suicide. " It was one of the most tragic events of the history of human kind", says Dr Balwant Singh.