With face to face interviews ruled out during the pandemic, how are oral historians coping?

From online conversations of virtual reality, technology is substituting for travel and personal meetings.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Sep 13, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘The Partition generation that migrated to Britain is in no-man’s land when it comes to belonging’

An interview with Kavita Puri, whose ‘Partition Voices’ chronicles the unique stories of Partition refugees who migrated to Britain.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Jul 27, 2019 · 10:30 am

Meet the British-born Sikh publishers whose books nurture the legacy of both the Punjabs

No publisher like Kashi House, focussing the entirety of its list on undivided Punjab, exists in either India or Pakistan.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Jun 16, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Kill all the British sucking Indian blood’: The canny poster propaganda used by Japan in WWII

The Japanese astutely evoked moments of misery under the Raj to exhort Indians to rise up against the British.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Apr 08, 2019 · 11:30 am

A teenager traces her Indian great-great grandmother’s life as an indentured labourer in Fiji

Through a few tangible objects, and memories handed down generations, Hemanshi Kumar remembers the life of Raj Pali.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Sep 13, 2018 · 11:30 am

Seventy-one years on, the Partition is inflicting fresh trauma – on those who document its horrors

Oral historians in the subcontinent are paying a steep price for recording personal histories of violence, death and grief.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Aug 15, 2018 · 11:30 am

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

· Nov 27, 2017 · 11:30 am

How some families’ material memories are re-creating the history of the Partition

A journey through the artefacts carried, and left behind, by those who migrated in 1947.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Aug 14, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Kapur and Kapoor: Two friends survived Partition and changed the way Indians drank tea and coffee

Hitkari Pottery was once found in every middle class china cabinet and bridal trousseau in the country.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Apr 17, 2017 · 11:30 am

Jamun: The humble fruit that holds a special place in India’s history and mythology

Its deep purple colour has stained many a memory.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Jun 10, 2016 · 11:30 am

If there’s a heaven, it’s just opened its first independent bookshop

If you believe in an afterlife, you have to believe that these three pioneering booksellers have set up shop together.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Mar 16, 2016 · 08:30 am

‘I don’t love Delhi’: Meet the capital’s most compelling chronicler, Mayank Austen Soofi

The popular writer-blogger talks about Delhi, Marcel Proust, and his days as a hotel waiter.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Jan 10, 2016 · 11:30 am