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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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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Indore Congress candidate backed out days after attempt-to-murder charge added to 17-year-old case
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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In Mathura, Muslims say they were denied their vote. No complaints in Hindu areas
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In his new book, journalist Boria Majumdar addresses BCCI’s two-year ban after an online controversy
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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: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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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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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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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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ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson included in Rohit Sharma-led India squad
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Badminton, Uber Cup 2024: India lose to China in group stage-decider; progress to quarter-final
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Watch, highlights ISL 2023-24: Diaz and Chhangte on target as Mumbai City beat FC Goa to enter final
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IPL 2024: Varun Chakravarthy, Phil Salt star as Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Capitals
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Boxing, Asian U22 and Youth C’ships: Brijesh, Sagar, Sumit enter semi-finals, assured of medals