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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Does India really benefit from NRIs heading the world’s new-age empires?
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A journalist examines the similarities and the differences between Indians and Pakistanis today
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The unsolved mystery of the fake PMO officer in Kashmir
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Rahul Gandhi sentenced to two years in jail for remarks about Modi surname
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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ review: Even higher stakes and crazier 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: SUV is stranded in the middle of a river, passengers have to be rescued
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‘Can you feel it?’ Watch Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Fallon guess what’s inside mystery box
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Watch: Massive fire breaks out in a factory in Gujarat’s Valsad, huge plume of smoke covers the sky
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Caught on camera: The moment when a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Bangladesh
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‘A reporter is arrested under a law meant for terrorists...’: A newspaper editor on press freedom
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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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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ review: Even higher stakes and crazier action
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Watch: Oppression and rebellion in Independence-era drama ‘August 16 1947’
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‘Gumraah’ trailer: Crime thriller stars Aditya Roy Kapur in a double role, Mrunal Thakur as a cop
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How OP Nayyar was one of the original disruptors of Hindi film music
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Watch: The blunder years in ‘School College Ani Life’ starring Tejasswi Prakash, Karan Parab
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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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Women’s Boxing World C’ships: Nitu, Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain, Saweety reach finals
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IND v AUS: Rohit Sharma on workload management for World Cup – ‘Up to IPL franchises and players’
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ISSF World Cup Bhopal: Rhythm-Varun win mixed pistol silver; Rudrankksh-Narmada claim rifle bronze
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Watch: When Mesut Ozil produced 19 assists for Arsenal in the 2015-’16 Premier League season
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Football: India earns narrow win over Myanmar in tri-nation opener; Women’s team draw against Jordan