partition
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‘Broken Threads’: A thoughtful memoir on how a colonial past has framed a family’s present
Anisha Sircar
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For children: In 1948, Amil and his family are trying to rebuild their lives in Bombay in free India
Veera Hiranandani
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Breaking barriers: The notes of longing and belonging that shape the music of the Dard-Shina tribe
Suheel Rasool Mir
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How Southasian regionalism could chart the course beyond subcontinental strife
Kanak Mani Dixit
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Harsh Mander: Allowing bureaucrats to join the RSS marks the final burial of India’s ‘steel frame’
Harsh Mander
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Hemu Kalani: A lost freedom hero from Sindh and a homeland cleaved apart
Saaz Aggarwal
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When Pakistani peace activist Karamat Ali (1945-2024) took an Indian journalist’s ashes ‘home’
Mandira Nayar
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‘How is my city?’ In Delhi, a meeting with Partition migrants from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Ehtesham Hassan
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Lok Sabha 2024: How important are emotions to electoral politics?
Indrajit Roy
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Watch: Childhood friends separated by the 1947 Partition meet after 76 years in USA
Scroll Staff
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When Dom Moraes met fellow-writer Sunil Gangopadhyay in Kolkata for a profile
Dom Moraes
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Translated fiction: Satnam observes how communal violence engulfs Amritsar after the Partition
Nanak Singh Navdeep Suri
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Fiction: Kashmir is expected to join Pakistan after Partition, but King Hari Singh has other plans
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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The forgotten massacre of Jammu Muslims in 1947 set a template of impunity and violence
Sajjad Hassan
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‘We only had a cot with us’: An elderly woman recalls migrating to Pakistan after the Partition
Sandeep Dutt Faisal Hayat Ritika
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Hyper nationalism outside, desolate inside: A guide to the Wagah-Attari border crossing
Kanak Mani Dixit
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How did low-cost posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and after the Partition?
Yousuf Saeed
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From the memoir: What it meant to leave Peshawar and move to newly-partitioned India as a child
Indira Varma
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‘Azadi’: How a syncretic India can crumble away under the pressure of communal, nationalistic pride
Saloni Sharma
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‘Azadi’: In Chaman Nahal’s 1975 novel, the reality of the Partition dawns, and lives are destroyed
Chaman Nahal