The history of the mostly acrimonious relation between India and Pakistan stems from the traumatic event of partition that played itself out in ‘all its gory’ and violence around the area surrounding the Radcliff line that was drawn hastily by the British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliff in August 1947. With barely five weeks between start and finish, Radcliff had to chair not one but two boundary commissions: one for Bengal in the east, another for the Punjab in the westv(Jisha Menon). In August 1947, the labour pains prior to the birth of the fraternal twins-Indian and Pakistan were intense, prolonged and tumultuous leading to a situation in which roughly one million people died, ten to twelve million were displaced, thousands of women were raped and property suffered a staggering loss. In the weeks leading up to August 14-15th, communal violence began to break out across India. Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were forced from their homes and ancestral lands as the new border was drawn between India and Pakistan. Upon Partition, the situation worsened with trains full of refugees that were going either way across the border, being attacked and finally arriving at their destinations full of corpses.