Disaster, Schism, and the Radcliffe Awards

This poem written by WH Auden in 1966 named ‘Partition’ is a caustic criticism of the five weeks Cyril Radcliffe spent in the subcontinent drawing up the borders between India and Pakistan. It depicts the reality of the situation and the disaster, the Radcliffe awards turned out to be. It was no surprise that Pakistan …

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