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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Why experts fear Mumbai is building heat traps
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India at Asian Games, Oct 5, live: Compound women’s archers, PV Sindhu in action; wrestling resumes
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Shiv Sena MP booked for making Nanded hospital dean clean toilets
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No one spared in ‘NewsClick’ raids – young staffers, part-time employees, freelance contributors
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India at Asian Games, Oct 5 schedule: Antim Panghal, Saurav Ghosal and women’s hockey team in action
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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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Watch: Actor Matthew McConaughey makes a song out of his new children’s book with Jimmy Fallon
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‘Butter chicken’: Australian cricketers reveal what they are looking forward to eating in India
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Watch: Lund University students, teachers celebrate Anne L’Huillier winning the Physics Nobel Prize
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Watch: Meet Conan, one of the stray cats who have joined the security team at a commercial complex
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Watch: Rare Sumatran rhino born in Indonesian sanctuary, bolstering conservation efforts
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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: Ravi Teja in action thriller ‘Tiger Nageswara Rao’
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‘12th Fail’ trailer: Vikrant Massey plays a UPSC applicant
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Book versus movie: Bengali film ‘Herbert’ says if the source story is great, don’t tinker with it
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Start the week with a film: In ‘A Fantastic Woman’, a trans singer hits the right notes
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Watch: Gigi Scaria’s film revisits memories of meeting Mahatma Gandhi
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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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Watch, Asian Games: Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Jena win historic gold and silver medal in Hangzhou
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Watch, Asian Games: Parul Chaudhary’s late surge helps India to women’s 5000m gold in Hangzhou
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Watch, Asian Games: Annu Rani becomes first Indian woman to win javelin throw gold