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Last week, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued an official notification stating that the Assam government cannot refer members of the Gorkha community living in the state to the Foreigners Tribunal.

These women were amongst the initial members of the armed independence movement lead by prominent Bengali revolutionary, Surya Sen, whose names would forever remain synonymous with the Chittagong Uprising.

During Partition, there were people in India and Pakistan who did not just refuse to join the murderous mobs but took enormous risks to save people of other religious communities. Here are the little known stories of these real life heroes from both countries.