When the Indian subcontinent was partitioned in August 1947, there were many consequences, most of them brutal in the once-united Punjab and Bengal. These have been documented at length by scholars, oral historians, poets, novelists and filmmakers. The most powerful work on the partition, in my opinion, is the Hindi novel Jhoota Sach (“False Truth”) by Yashpal Singh, a close comrade of Bhagat Singh, the freedom fighter executed by the British in 1931.