Guneeta Singh Bhalla

Guneeta Singh Bhalla is the Founder and Executive Director of The 1947 Partition Archive. In 1947 her father's family migrated from Lahore to Amritsar on August 14. Prior to her present work, she was an experimental condensed matter physicist and completed her tenure as a post-doctoral researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley, in December 2012. She studied quantum confinement at interfaces that include oxide heterostructures and domain walls in multiferroics. A selection of published research can be found at Nature.com, Physical Review Letters and other publications. After a 2008 visit to the oral testimony archives at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial she was inspired and began interviewing Partition survivors in 2010. In 2011 The 1947 Partition Archive was born. She has personally interviewed over 100 Partition survivors and rallied volunteers to join in building the grassroots foundations of this people-powered organization. Select pieces from her writing on The 1947 Partition Archive can be found at the Economic Times and Business Standard (syndicated at Reddiff).