Vintage Partition Photographs

Black and white photographs I see them To understand it Rather than going by any text The historian puts it before As the history Of modern age Beginning with independence, Heralding a new age. I see the bullock cart, The horse-carriage With the horses nonplussed to go, Take to the partition people With belongings, Houses abandoned With the cattle left out, The old and the infirm on the ways, A mammoth of people taking to roads, Going where? The caravans of refugees, People in simple dhoti, kurta and sari, The common folks on the pathways Going to an unknown destination So far from, The trains crowded with With a great rush Sitting atop the trains, Hanging onto gates. I do not know Who took it Who from whose cameras, Who clicked And snapped photos And whose photos Display we In art galleries Or keep we in museums To have a re-look on them?