1947: Pages Written in Silence

Set in 1947, in a small village near Jalandhar, Punjab—a place where faith once lived quietly beside familiarity. Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs shared courtyards, festivals, wells, and generations of trust, never imagining that identity could one day outweigh humanity. When the announcement of Partition came, it did not arrive with understanding—but with fear. What had simmered for months erupted in hours. Neighbors who once exchanged sweets now spoke in whispers. Streets remembered footsteps that would never return. By the next dawn, the village no longer recognized itself. Amid the spreading riots and rising hatred, Zubiya Sheikh and her family joined the desperate tide fleeing toward the newly formed Pakistan. In the chaos of the railway station—crowded with cries, smoke, and gunshots—Zubiya was separated from her family. Left behind in a world that had suddenly turned hostile, she ran through the very streets that had raised her, hunted by fear, clinging to dignity, praying for a miracle. That miracle arrived in the form of Dhruv Chaudhari. Defying the madness of the time, Dhruv took Zubiya under his name—an act that challenged religion, law, and survival itself. What began as protection soon became a burden of promise, responsibility, and unspoken love. In a world determined to divide, they stood bound by a choice neither had planned. As the country burns and borders harden, destiny asks its cruelest question: Will love endure when the world insists on hatred—or will history claim them as it has claimed so many before?