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I write short posts about one of the millions of families partitioned in 1947 when India divided itself, tales of hope & hopelessness over the past 77 years in New York, Nairobi, Dublin, and Kashmir, where I was born a Scorpio at midnight.

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    Jinnah in Kashmir 1945 (opens the original)

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    Jinnah in Kashmir, 1945On Pakistan’s Independence Day, I am sharing two photographs of Mohammed Ali Jinnah that I have never published in this form before.My father, Ghulam Mohammed Kathwari, took them in Kashmir in 1945. He knew Jinnah personally.Eighty-one years later, the photographs remain in our family.Here is Jinnah before Partition standing beneath a Kashmiri tree; then reclining on the grass, his guard momentarily down.My father was behind the camera<div c

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