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

· Aug 18, 2022 · 09:00 am

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

· Aug 20, 2021 · 06:30 am

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

· Aug 27, 2020 · 03:30 pm

‘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

· Feb 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

· May 24, 2018 · 11:30 am

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

· Dec 20, 2017 · 09:30 pm

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

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

· Sep 17, 2017 · 08:00 am

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

· Aug 12, 2017 · 11:30 am

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

· Mar 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

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

· Aug 15, 2016 · 03:00 pm

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

· Aug 13, 2016 · 08:30 am