For Sindhi Hindus, August brings back the pain of losing their homeland, a loss deepened by violence that erupted in Sindh in January 1948, nearly five months after Partition. Unlike Punjab and…
A young Mumbai writer, Sana Krishna, has written a poignant essay about her grandfather, a Hindu who was forced to leave Lahore during Partition. She describes his gentleness and resilience in rebuilding…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday criticised the Congress for its decision to sing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram at party events, calling it unconstitutional and a question mark on the…
Pakistan will confer its highest civilian award, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, on two Mumbai-based Parsi doctors posthumously for keeping the terminal illness of Muhammad Ali Jinnah a secret. Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, who chairs the…
Director Rajkumar Santoshi has said investors were hesitant to back 'Batwara 1947' because Sunny Deol plays a Muslim character. Santoshi told Galatta India that financiers wanted Deol in a conventional action film…
Sunny Deol's upcoming film Batwara 1947 has sparked debate over its depiction of the 1947 Partition. The film is based on Asghar Wajahat's 1989 play 'Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Jamyai Nai'…
NDTV reports that decades after Partition divided Punjab along the Radcliffe Line, the quest to preserve 'Punjabiyat', the shared Punjabi identity, continues on both sides of the border. The report examines how…
A Times Now opinion article argues that people displaced during the 1947 Partition should not be described simply as refugees. It says they moved within undivided India before Partition created India and…
Manik Varadkar, 94, survived the 1935 Quetta earthquake, Partition violence and imprisonment during the Samyukta Maharashtra agitation. Born Manik Khanolkar in 1931 to a prosperous Konkani Maharashtrian family in Quetta, she lost…
A tapestry called Khwab-e-Rafu (Dreams of Mending), made from over 100 individual pieces stitched by people in 13 cities across India, Pakistan, the UK and the US, is on display at Mool…
Ashin Xavier: interesting
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IO Repro: Repro test after fix 2 Oct. Safe to trash.