Khushwant Singh
LastDays In Lahore
From the brittle security of an elite rooftop, a view of a cityburning
Bomkesh Padulia Saha
WhileBengal Bled...
Under the mute gaze of the State, millions of umbilical cordswere severed
Patrick French
TheForgotten Womb
Just half-a-century later, a collective amnesia reigns over thesubcontinent
Azhar Abbas
TheTwice Displaced
Biharis, who went to Pakistan via Bangladesh, are still unsettleddetritus. Their story.
Tarun J. Tejpal
OneGeneration Trauma?
There's a lesson in Partition that may hold little meaning forour children
JallianwalaBagh Most Associated With Partition
Youth Poll findings reveal startling ignorance: Mountbatten, notJinnah, is the man most responsible for partition; Kashmir was thought of as thestate most affected by Partition; Just 40 per cent knew partition took placeunder Mountbatten's supervision
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Mushirul Hasan
ImaginaryHomelands
Victims of the brinkmanship of the British, the Congress andMuslim League, the masses were neither committed to a Hindu state nor an Islamicnation
Ritu Menon
AnExchange Of Women
Abduction, forcible recovery, silence: the tragic irony of Partition's unsung
RamachandraGuha
ThoseLittle Gladiators
From genteel sport to jingoist war-game--Indo-Pak cricket alters the rules
TornImages Fractured Words
Saadat Hasan Manto's short, short stories
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
Sufferers& Survivors
These are the stories of women, children, everyman; of the painand trauma of being uprooted--an account of our holocaust
Sunil Mehra
P.K. Das
At 11, torn from his family, he fled East Bengal with Rs 30,borrowed from a Muslim retainer
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InderKumar Gujral
Now head of state, in 1947 he was one among the dispossessedmillions
SheilaGujral
Though relieved to leave Lahore, she missed its life of the mind.Delhi was a village
SatishGujral
He hoped for a Lahore, India, address. And fled only when historydictated otherwise
SattarEdhi
Angry with a dream gone sour, Pakistan's 'Father Teresa' is stillfired with optimism
VinodDua
They've come very far from the gutter that life threw them into;but his mother still calls Delhiites 'Hindustanis'
B.L.Sharma 'Prem'
Fundamentalist by 'birth, instinct, training', his aggressivemotto is 'Next year, Lahore'
Gen.Mirza Aslam Beg
From UP's Azamgarh, he called democratic polls after Zia's death;yet retains a sense of dissatisfaction
MohanlalPesumal Makhijani
He came with the deathly 'Karachi Cologne' on him; joinedEdwina's rescue team
GenJ.S. Aurora
He saw mud, massacre and betrayal in '47; yet 71 was just duty,not poetic justice
SunilGangopadhyay
Haunted by bleak images of riots, famine and migration, he tookrefuge in literature
Inzamam-Ul-Haq
The Gentle Giant of Multan wanted to look in on his nativeHaryana village, but was refused permission
JusticeKemaluddin Hossain
A refugee from Calcutta's legal street, he was sensitised to theminority predicament
IntezarHussein
Gifted with a syncretic outlook, he decided to go west when allfriends, with whom he discussed poetry, left
KaifiAzmi
Emigre poetry is laden with nostalgia, he says, suggesting a turffor cultural dialogue
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UzraBhatt
The dancer-actress is happy to be in Lahore, says Muslims arekings there
AliSardar Jafri
His Pakistani family got Mohajir-ised; he, over here, gotmarginalised
UstadFateh Ali
The classical maestro opted for Pakistan but admits he paid aprice for it: his music
BegumPara
After two years as Pakistani citizen, she realised she wasdifferently acculturised
NaeemaBegum
A Mohajir in Sindh, uprooted from UP, she finds no respite from aharsh, blood-shot life
P.K.Chakravarty
Two Hindu families, who never left Dhaka in '47, were hit by theAyodhya spillover
JeetBehn
At six, she witnessed the slaughter of her family. In 1984, sherelived the trauma
