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As India is rent into two nations, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos. At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, has run away from her father, who would rather poison his daughter than see her defiled. And Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim...
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"After the firebombing of her San Francisco house and a coincidental meeting during a routine doctor's visit, Calcutta-born Tara Chatterjee is compelled to embark on a most American of journeys, a search for her roots. Her task is to trace the story of her great-great-aunt, Tara Lata, who at the age of five was married to a tree in the Indian village of Mishtigunj. Her search takes her into the heart of her family history - and the history of her...
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