Partition's Ghosts
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How the trauma of Partition survivors has been intensified by India-Pakistan animosity
The bitter enmity between the neighbours has turned the border into an iron wall, cutting off people-to-people contact.
Ammara Ahmad
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Partition Horrors Day to CAA: BJP has tried to weaponise 1947 for electoral politics
The move might help both in terms of votes as well as dovetail into the BJP’s ideology of projecting India as a Hindu mirror of a Muslim Pakistan.
Shoaib Daniyal
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After seven decades, the children of Partition are going back home through virtual reality
A non-profit in the UK is using technology to help South Asians revisit fading memories.
Anisha Sircar
Trending
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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Mid-life running works wonders for the knees, hips and spine
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
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‘Why are you silent?’ What the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (and Ageya) means in the times of CAA-NRC
Revisiting the poetry of the Partition in the context of the citizenship controversy.
Ian Woolford
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What is home? Indian and Pakistani artists explore the question through stories of Partition
‘Postcards from Home’ by Indian artist Manisha Gera Baswani is a collection of accounts of love and longing.
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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When Bengalis launched a massive signature campaign to prevent the 1905 partition
More than 60,000 signatures were collected in what was one of the early examples signs of mass resistance against British rule.
Parthasarathi Bhaumik
Video
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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How my book brought together two families, divided by Partition and united by a house
Shared histories, deep loss and a love for Kehkashan, a cottage in Dalhousie run deep between a Pakistan and Indian family.
Aanchal Malhotra
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Interview: Hindus in Bangladesh have faced ethnic cleansing since 1947
Bangladesh’s minorities are suffering because Indian leaders agreed to Partition, says war crimes prosecutor Rana Dasgupta.
Ajaz Ashraf
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Why the Partition of India was a tectonic event for Sri Lankan Sindhis
The ties between the community and the island nation, which began in the 19th century, became stronger after the division of India.
Aisha Nazim
The Reel
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee’s hundredth movie ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ is a revenge drama
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition
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‘Presumed Innocent’ trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal plays a lawyer accused of murdering his lover
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‘Lampan’ trailer: Marathi series is based on Prakash Narayan Sant’s stories
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The Partition fiction very few people read: The literature of displacement from Assam’s Barak Valley
The writing from the region is marked by diversity and complexity of narratives.
Suranjana Choudhury
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All these years later, nobody has chronicled the Partition like Ritwik Ghatak
The Bengali director’s films are one of the most powerful artistic articulations of the trauma of displacement after the Partition.
Rituparna Roy
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What drove some who experienced Partition to brutality – and how they live with it
Author Ishtiaq Ahmed shares the perspective of the victims as well as perpetrators of the blood-bath surrounding the division of the subcontinent.
Ajaz Ashraf
The Field
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IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals stay in playoff hunt with win over Rajasthan Royals in high-scoring clash
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Paris Olympic-bound Preeti among seven gold medallists for India
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Football: Odisha FC to compete in the inaugural AFC Women’s Champions League
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IPL 2024: Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten ton helps Mumbai secure much-needed win over Hyderabad
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India tour of Bangladesh: Visitors register commanding win in rain-affected fourth T20I