I love using Google. I’ve probably used Google about ten times today from looking up directions to my friend’s gym to scoping out flight prices for a trip to Thailand. After watching a tearjerker of an ad originally released on Google’s very own Google+ page, I spent about an hour googling the Partition of India, which itself is very heartbreaking. Google’s internal motto to “Don’t be Evil” certainly inspires this ad that, of course, features Google products helping the granddaughter of man in India reunite with his childhood friend in Pakistan.
Learn more about the Partition of India from the 1947 Partition Archive, a non-profit organization that documents stories and memories from people who lived through the creation of Pakistan and India. Here is Ravi Chopra’s story, a sweet old man, hit by a stray bullet while fleeing the country, who hid in the train compartment with a Muslim family in order to get to the border of India and survive the Partition.
Happy googling,
@laurylkitson