The DD Files: When Shyam Benegal brought India’s entire history to TV screens in ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’

Benegal’s monumental series, based on ‘A Discovery of India’, is Nehruvian in scope and its lapses.

Mridula Chari

· Aug 20, 2017 · 09:15 am

Assam tea workers who hoisted tricolour bare-chested while shouting slogans booked for disrespect

The labourers were protesting closure of the garden and denial of benefits.

Arunabh Saikia

· Aug 19, 2017 · 12:30 pm

‘An Evening in Lahore’: The Partition cannot breach a friendship in Navtej Singh’s short story

One of a special selection of four short stories about Independence and Partition, by writers from India and Pakistan.

Navtej Singh

· Aug 19, 2017 · 06:00 am

Memories of August 15, 1947, the tug of war of accession, and intrigue in Pakistan

Poet and writer Keki N Daruwalla was 10 years old when India gained freedom (and 11 when Gandhi was assassinated).

Keki N Daruwalla

· Aug 18, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘Ganga Ram’: Pre-Partition memories live on in Pakistani writer Azra Waqar’s poignant story

One of a special selection of four short stories about Independence and Partition, by writers from India and Pakistan.

Azra Waqar

· Aug 18, 2017 · 05:30 am

Migration and gunfire are young poets’ material for writing about the Partition

A gathering of poets at ‘Museum of Memories: Remembering Partition’ opened up a dialogue.

Nabina Das

· Aug 17, 2017 · 10:35 pm

‘Grass’: In Kulwant Singh Virk’s story, an abducted woman wants a family around her in a new country

One of a special selection of four short stories about Independence and Partition, by writers from India and Pakistan.

Kulwant Singh Virk

· Aug 17, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Should she, shouldn’t she? A graphic story of crossing borders years after the Partition

An excerpt from an anthology of narratives about the Partition and after.

Syeda Farhana

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Nitesh Mohanty

· Aug 17, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘The Undivided’: Waris Shah has been hanged 26 times but refuses to die in Ahmad Salim’s story

One of a special selection of four short stories about Independence and Partition, by writers from India and Pakistan.

Ahmad Salim

· Aug 16, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘Inside INA’ is little more than an advert for Asia’s largest naval academy

Viewers looking for an engaging documentary and not a filmed brochure will be disappointed.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Aug 16, 2017 · 12:45 pm

There are more movies about Subhash Chandra Bose than ever before

Rajkummar Rao is the latest actor to portray the freedom fighter in the web series ‘Bose: Dead/Alive’.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Aug 16, 2017 · 09:05 am

How former Bangladeshis are learning to be Indians after the exchange of Partition enclaves

A new book documents travels along the borders created by the Partition in 1947.

Bishwanath Ghosh

· Aug 16, 2017 · 08:30 am