Mira wishes if she had a life like Nusrat. She also sees Nusrat dancing without a care in the world. Mira sees that Nusrat is having a lovely married life with Anand Joshi (Shamaun Ahmed). Mira starts observing her whenever her train passes from near her house. However, just next to Shekhar’s house, Mira spots Nusrat John (Aditi Rao Hydari). On the way, she crosses the place where her house with Shekhar is situated. With nothing else to do in life, she begins to travel in the train from London to it’s suburbs and back. During her drunken stupors, Mira ends up assaulting Shekhar and also insulting his boss due to which Shekhar is fired. And then the next day, she would not remember a thing. She drinks so much that she would get violent and suffer from blackouts. Mira is shattered and to cope up with the loss, she resorts to drinking. Her doctor tells that she is not fit to conceive again. Unfortunately, Mira and Shekhar get involved in a car accident. 6 months later, Mira is in a happy space as motherhood is something she deeply aspired for. The same day, Mira finds out that she is pregnant. Yet, she proves in the court that Jimmy is the killer. She then receives threats from the family of the accused, Jimmy Baga. Mira takes up the case of an African man who gets killed in a shootout. Mira Kapoor (Parineeti Chopra), based in London, is happily married to Shekhar (Avinash Tiwary). In the evenings, the government screened Disney films, which were watched by as many as 15,000 people at a time.THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is the story of a troubled alcoholic who gets involved in the murder of a girl whom she hardly knows. Originally intended for 100, 000 people, the camp soon swelled to thrice that number. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Kurukshetra refugee camp in April, 1948. The partition is believed to have displaced close to 15 million people, according to UNHCR ‘s estimates. Inside one of the 200-odd refugee camps set up by the Indian goverment as refugees poured in from both East and West Pakistan. Kingsway Camp was located where Guru Teg Bahadur or GTB Nagar now stands. It was so large that families that were separated on the other side of the border would often find each other once they made it to the camp. Kingsway Camp, Delhi’s largest refugee camp, was home to about 300, 000 people at its peak. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) The 16th century fortress turned into one of Delhi’s biggest refugee camps as the capital struggled with a refugee crisis amid spurts of communal rioting. After one such attack, photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White arrived at the Amritsar station to find men from the “militant Akhali sect.sitting cross-legged” on the platform, sword in hand, “patiently waiting for the next train." (Getty Images)Ī young boy sits on the walls of Purana Qila in New Delhi. Although these trains traveled on confidential routes with armed guards, they were still attacked. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)Ī train crammed with refugees leaves for Pakistan from the border city of Amritsar in 1947. Special trains took hundreds of Delhi's Muslims who were relocating to Pakistan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)Ī Muslim League National Guard helps a refugee family fill their water containers before their train to Pakistan leaves Old Delhi station. What was initially a camp for government employees migrating to Pakistan, soon became a refuge for Muslims escaping communal violence in their neighborhoods. Muslim refugees entering the Purana Qila refugee camp in Delhi. In September, 1947, Muslims gather as they as they seek protected transport to Pakistan (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru addresses Hindus and Muslims, while pleaing for the end of communal violence. The conference in New Delhi where the partition plan was disclosed (left to right): Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first pirme minister, Lord Ismay, adviser to Mountbatten, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, President of the All-India Muslim League. In the wake of partition, violence erupted across Delhi - the worst hit areas were Sadar Bazar, Sabzi Mandi, Paharganj and Karol Bagh. The bodies of people who died in communal rioting in Delhi being removed from the streets. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images) Muslim League National Guards stand to attention in honour of the departure. On August 7, 1947, one of 30 special trains carrying staff of the new Pakistan government to Karachi prepares to leave the Old Delhi Station. The ceremony was held on August 16 because the new cabinet was sworn in on August 15. Thousands gathered at Red Fort on the morning of Augto watch Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru hoist the tricolor above the fort’s Lahore Gate.
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