Lahore: A State Of Mind
It was an evanescent dream. Yet, the city saw the first blush of syncretic high culture.
The Twice Displaced
Biharis, who went to Pakistan via Bangladesh, are still unsettled detritus. Their story.
Naeema Begum
A Mohajir in Sindh, uprooted from UP, she finds no respite from a harsh, blood-shot life.
Ustad Fateh Ali Khan
The classical maestro opted for Pakistan but admits he paid a price for it: his music.
Kaifi Azmi
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>
Intezar Hussein
Gifted with a syncretic outlook, he decided to go west when all friends, with whom he discussed poetry, left.
Justice Kemaluddin Hossain
A refugee from Calcutta's legal street, he was sensitised to the minority predicament.
Inzamam-ul Haq
The Gentle Giant of Multan wanted to look in on his native Haryana village, but was refused permission.
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Haunted by bleak images of riots, famine and migration, he took refuge in literature.
Mohanlal Pesumal Makhijani
He came with the deathly 'Karachi Cologne' on him; joined Edwina's rescue team.
Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg
From UP's Azamgarh, he called democratic polls after Zia's death; yet retains a sense of dissatisfaction
B.L. Sharma 'Prem'
Fundamentalist by 'birth, instinct, training', his aggressive motto is 'Next year, Lahore'.
Vinod Dua
They've come very far from the gutter that life threw them into; but his mother still calls Delhiites 'Hindustanis'.
P.K. Das
At 11, torn from his family, he fled East Bengal with Rs 30, borrowed from a Muslim retainer
Sufferers & Survivors
These are the stories of women, children, everyman; of the pain and trauma of being uprooted--an account of our holocaust
Imaginary Homelands
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
Poetic Overtures
With the proposed working groups, India and Pakistan set in motion a structured dialogue
Jallianwala Bagh Most Associated With Partition
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
How To Fuel Suspicion
A spate of naphtha-based power proposals, mystifyingly sanctioned, may prove costly
Kings & Pawns
Nehru's delusion that Pakistan couldn't survive, the power-mad Congress' impatience with Gandhi, Jinnah's ambition--thus was born a bloody script
"They Are Trying To Malign Rajiv Gandhi By Using My Friendship With The Family"
Quattrocchi's first reaction to the CBI status report
'I Don't Take Instructions From Anyone"
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:
The Politicos Are Fuming
Barring the Left, political parties lambast Joginder Singh for his selective Bofors 'leak'