COVER STORY
There's a lesson in Partition that may hold little meaning for our children
Outlook Magazine - 28 May 1997
It was an evanescent dream. Yet, the city saw the first blush of syncretic high culture.
Biharis, who went to Pakistan via Bangladesh, are still unsettled detritus. Their story.
It was an evanescent dream. Yet, the city saw the first blush of syncretic high culture.
Biharis, who went to Pakistan via Bangladesh, are still unsettled detritus. Their story.
From genteel sport to jingoist war-game--Indo-Pak cricket alters the rules
Just half-a-century later, a collective amnesia reigns over the subcontinent
Under the mute gaze of the State, millions of umbilical cords were severed
Abduction, forcible recovery, silence: the tragic irony of Partition's unsung
From the brittle security of an elite rooftop, a view of a city burning
At six, she witnessed the slaughter of her family. In 1984, she relived the trauma.
Two Hindu families, who never left Dhaka in '47, were hit by the Ayodhya spillover.
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A Mohajir in Sindh, uprooted from UP, she finds no respite from a harsh, blood-shot life.
After two years as Pakistani citizen, she realised she was differently acculturised.
The classical maestro opted for Pakistan but admits he paid a price for it: his music.
His Pakistani family got Mohajir-ised; he, over here, got marginalised.
The dancer-actress is happy to be in Lahore, says Muslims are kings there.
Emigre poetry is laden with nostalgia, he says, suggesting a turf for cultural dialogue. <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=176 target=_blank> More Stories </a>
Gifted with a syncretic outlook, he decided to go west when all friends, with whom he discussed poetry, left.
A refugee from Calcutta's legal street, he was sensitised to the minority predicament.
The Gentle Giant of Multan wanted to look in on his native Haryana village, but was refused permission.
Haunted by bleak images of riots, famine and migration, he took refuge in literature.
He saw mud, massacre and betrayal in '47; yet 71 was just duty, not poetic justice.
He came with the deathly 'Karachi Cologne' on him; joined Edwina's rescue team.
From UP's Azamgarh, he called democratic polls after Zia's death; yet retains a sense of dissatisfaction
Fundamentalist by 'birth, instinct, training', his aggressive motto is 'Next year, Lahore'.
They've come very far from the gutter that life threw them into; but his mother still calls Delhiites 'Hindustanis'.
Angry with a dream gone sour, Pakistan's 'Father Teresa' is still fired with optimism.
He hoped for a Lahore, India, address. And fled only when history dictated otherwise.
Though relieved to leave Lahore, she missed its life of the mind. Delhi was a village.
Now head of state, in 1947 he was one among the dispossessed millions.
At 11, torn from his family, he fled East Bengal with Rs 30, borrowed from a Muslim retainer
These are the stories of women, children, everyman; of the pain and trauma of being uprooted--an account of our holocaust
Victims of the brinkmanship of the British, the Congress and Muslim League, the masses were neither committed to a Hindu state nor an Islamic nation
India objects, but SAARC agrees to informal political consultations
With the proposed working groups, India and Pakistan set in motion a structured dialogue
MTNL launches a technology that has failed all tests
Youth Poll findings reveal startling ignorance: Mountbatten, not Jinnah, is the man most responsible for partition; Kashmir was thought of as the state most affected by Partition; Just 40 per cent knew partition took place under Mountbatten's supervi
A spate of naphtha-based power proposals, mystifyingly sanctioned, may prove costly
Saadat Hasan Manto's short, short stories
Nehru's delusion that Pakistan couldn't survive, the power-mad Congress' impatience with Gandhi, Jinnah's ambition--thus was born a bloody script
Quattrocchi's first reaction to the CBI status report
For a man who is facing a privilege motion, CBI director Joginder Singh is unfazed. Oozing aggression, the tough-talking CBI director spoke to Charu Lata Joshi. Excerpts:
Barring the Left, political parties lambast Joginder Singh for his selective Bofors 'leak'
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