Besides writing about the 22-page-long private note that former Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Ramchandra Kak allegedly wrote, author Radha Rajan’s ‘Jammu and Kashmir Dilemma of Accession: A Historical Analysis and...
Urdu author Khalid Jawed speaking at ‘Jashn-e-Rekhta’ said memories of the Partition which is an ‘unfortunate event’ will live on for years through literature.
Jammu and Kashmir: The bridge, constructed in 1931 by the then princely state of J&K, has seen the bloody Partition in 1947 and the tragic human migrations that accompanied it, witnessed wars between India and Pakistan and...
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai was of the opinion that parties like RJD, and its ally Congress, spoke of threats to minorities ‘to get sympathy of certain sections of the society for electoral gains’.
The firebrand BJP leader was venting his spleen over controversial remarks reportedly made by Assam leader Badruddin Ajmal, about the Hindu community, while reacting to the BJP’s demands for a law for population control.
All eyes went teary as wheelchair-bound Amarjit Singh had an emotional meeting with his sister Kulsoom Akhtar at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur in Pakistan's Punjab province on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary on Sunday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi-led 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', saying that the Partition of India took place at the time of the Congress leader's forefathers.
Anusha Yadav, founder of the Indian Memory Project, a visual and narrative based online archive, traces the histories and identities of the Indian Subcontinent via photographs found in personal archives
Punjabi cuisine today is a mélange of Indo-Mughal-Persian-Afghani nuances. With the fleeing Punjabis from the North West Frontier region came the tandoor, and...
"If the BJP continues with its Hindu-Muslim campaign, it won’t gain politically," says former Additional Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Anis Ansari
A lowdown on literature that dwells on the days and months leading up to the partitioning of India in August 1947.
A snapshot of poetic work that concretely deals with one of the most tragic events of the 20th century
"There was bloodshed everywhere... every other person on the train was mourning the loss of a loved one," says 94-year-old Kailash Rani, recalling the day she...
It was not just partition of land but partition of our emotions, Manohar Lal Khattar said during his address in Kurukshetra on the 'Partition Horrors...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the partition of the country in 1947 is that inhuman chapter of the Indian history which can never be forgotten.
Prime Minister Modi had announced last year that August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in memory of the struggles and sacrifices of...
Delhi University has come forward with a plan to start a research center focused exclusively on the study of the Independence movement and partition.
Indian woman from Pune, Reena Varma's long-cherished dream of visiting her ancestral home in Rawalpindi materialised when Pakistan granted her a three-month...
Bisha K. Ali, British-Pakistani standup comedian and creator of the much-acclaimed 'Ms. Marvel' miniseries, has shared how the Partition became an important...
We have been trained to remember the Partition in a certain way but that memory is not perfect. Uncovering stories from the peripheries of caste and geography...
Leader of opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, has put forward a demand to observe the 20th of June as 'Poschimbongo Divas'...
‘Freedom at Midnight', a new web series about the Partition of India, based on the book of same name by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, is currently in...
'Freedom At Midnight' will focus on Indian independence and the partition. The series will be produced by StudioNext and Nikkhil Advani's Emmay Entertainment,...
From Kashmir to the Northeast, from wounds of the partition to post-independence India, the narrative of violence and displacement needs an inclusive space of...
When I look back now, I sometimes think we were the happiest and most aromatic on Sundays, when Baba would don a white kurta and pajama, brush his curls, walk...
