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Love in the Time of Massacres

While India was burning during the partition riots, Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the British Viceroy, had her intimacy with Nehru strengthened as they witnessed the horrors – both were often seen with hands held together while surveying smoldering villages and rotting bodies. If Garcia Marquez had written this book, the title would have been Love in the Time of Massacres.

 

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Picture by Henri Cartier Bresson.

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Uploaded on August 11, 2007
Taken on August 10, 2007