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‘Grass’: In Kulwant Singh Virk’s story, an abducted woman wants a family around her in a new country
Kulwant Singh Virk
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Should she, shouldn’t she? A graphic story of crossing borders years after the Partition
Syeda Farhana Nitesh Mohanty
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‘The Undivided’: Waris Shah has been hanged 26 times but refuses to die in Ahmad Salim’s story
Ahmad Salim
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How former Bangladeshis are learning to be Indians after the exchange of Partition enclaves
Bishwanath Ghosh
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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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It’s fiction, not history, that reveals the real impact of the Partition on women
Sukrita Paul Kumar
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‘Partition was like living through the end of the world’: Pakistan’s leading poet Kishwar Naheed
Ajaz Ashraf
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Did India start out as a better place than it is today? Seeking epiphanies in the Constitution
Dilip M. Menon
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It’s time for another freedom struggle: A Midnight’s Child looks back on India’s 70-year journey
Kalpana Sharma
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How some families’ material memories are re-creating the history of the Partition
Aanchal Malhotra
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When Amrita Pritam called out to Waris Shah in a heartrending ode while fleeing the Partition riots
Nirupama Dutt
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How Pakistan misconstrued the two-nation theory in its quest for an identity
Haroon Khalid
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Why the Partition is not just a historical event but a work in progress for Gulzar
Rakhshanda Jalil
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The Ashis Nandy interview: ‘People didn’t have the moral sanction to kill even during the Partition’
Ajaz Ashraf
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In Bengal, the bond of Rakhi once symbolised eternal protection – between Hindus and Muslims
Deepanjan Ghosh
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Opinion: The BJP’s ideology and its growth mirrors that of the Muslim League in the 1930s
Ajaz Ashraf
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Pakistan past and present: Crumbling Hindu buildings in Lahore’s oldest market trace the transition
Haroon Khalid
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Forty years after Zia came to power, the curse of his legacy lives on in Pakistan
I.A. Rehman
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How a Hindu temple was renovated by a Muslim and a Sufi shrine revamped by a Sikh in Pakistan
Haroon Khalid