Memory Lane

Virtual reality initiative Project Dastaan is helping survivors of Partition revisit the places they left behind.

- Rajashree Balaram

‘Partition’ is still a sore word for those who endured its ravages, but a group of Oxford University students is trying to meld technology and memory to heal the hurt. “The Partition resulted in the stripping away of the fundamental identity of those who bore the brunt of it,” says Sparsh Ahuja, a philosophy, politics and economics student and the founder and director of Project Dastaan. “We need to explore how we can undo some of that erasure.”