Rs 50 lakh for Partition Museum

London, January 18

Advertising guru and author Suhel Seth has become one of the largest individual donors and supporters of India’s first Partition Museum in Amritsar Town Hall.

Seth donated Rs 50 lakh towards a gallery within the museum to be dedicated to his parents, Shub and Jogendra Seth. “Partition has affected Punjab, Bengal and the world in so many ways — and this is the only museum in the world that is dedicated to the events of 1947. The ramifications of Partition continue till today,” he said.

The Partition Museum, a project entirely funded by public donations raised by UK-based Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, claims to be attracting up to 1,000 visitors daily ever since the inauguration of a curtain raiser exhibition in October last year.

The visitors include Partition survivors and their families, VIPs, and tourists, both foreign and Indian, the museum said in a statement.

Seth, whose parents hail from Amritsar, said his donation marks a long-standing desire to honour his parents in the city of their roots.

The museum has been planned as a collection of documents, oral histories and memorabilia commemorating the largest migration in history as well as an invaluable archive for scholars and academics. — PTI