Independence
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Spain gives Catalonia five days ultimatum to decide on independence declaration
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MK Gandhi's most ‘indelicate’ gift for Queen Elizabeth (and other stories about Khadi)
Pramod Kapoor
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Kurdish referendum: Iraqi leader says majority voted yes for independence
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Iraq’s Kurds vote in historic independence referendum despite international opposition
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‘Quit India!’ This story by Ismat Chughtai considers the fate of one man who was left behind
Ismat Chughtai
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When the Muslim poet who went on to write Pakistan’s national anthem wrote a nazm to Lord Krishna
Nikhil Mandalaparthy
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70 years of Partition: India, Pakistan have successfully demonised each other in popular imagination
Anam Zakaria
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‘The Partitioned Land (After TS Eliot)’: A poem to recollect Kashmir and Independence
Abhay K
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How have Indian novelists depicted Independence and the Partition? Here’s a sampler from their works
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Watch: This beautiful medley by Indian and Pakistani singers combines the two national anthems
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Why it is impossible to think of Urdu poetry without thinking of India’s journey to (and after) 1947
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Watch: A Dubai bakery’s tribute to 70 years of India’s independence is a $40,000 gourmet cake
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Meet the (almost) invisible man of India's independence movement
Vappala Balachandran
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More single Pakistani women are choosing to make their home in the West – alone
Madiha Waris Qureshi
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Has Lahore forgotten why January 26 was chosen as India's Republic Day?
Haroon Khalid
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Why Shashi Tharoor’s ‘An Era Of Darkness’ should be translated into every Indian language
Devapriya Roy
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Defying capitalism and socialism, Kumarappa and Gandhi had imagined a decentralised Indian economy
Venu Madhav Govindu Deepak Malghan
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The state is becoming a true Leviathan: What C Rajagopalachari said after breaking from the Congress
C Rajagopalachari
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The forgotten story of two Maulanas who mocked Jinnah's idea of Pakistan
Ajaz Ashraf
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An art project revisits India’s independent history through the eyes of 69 young artists
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri