2025. Akiko Kai is a commentator of the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum. She is the 2nd generation survivor of the Hiroshima atom bomb blast in 1945. I had always wanted to meet an atom bomb survivor to get the real description of how the Japanese people were impacted on 6 August 1945 at 8.16 am when the American dropped an atom bomb over the city. So when I met her in Hiroshima in 2025, I interviewed her.
When India was partitioned 1947 to create Pakistan, a new country for Muslims, about 20 million people of Bengal and Punjab were displaced and brutally victimized. Sen’s wealthy, literate family had huge landed property in erstwhile East Bengal, the present Bangladesh, which was carved out to be East Pakistan for Muslims. So for being Hindus Sen’s family was overnight evicted from their home. Without taking any possessions, they fled for their lives amidst people warring over religion, and so became squatted refugees in West Bengal.
