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A child who survived partition riots to being a High Court judge: 'Even beasts don’t behave the way humans did'
August 15, 2025 1:40 pm
From cutting wood in jungles to selling groundnuts and seeing his mother work as a domestic help, Verma, the boy from Mianwali’s Mohalla Gaushala has lived to tell the tale
Bridging hearts across borders| A YouTube video... & a man’s mission: to reunite partition-separated families
August 15, 2025 4:05 am
For the past seven years, 57-year-old Sudagar Singh “Chunni” of Chunni village in Fatehgarh Sahib has devoted his life to this work.
‘I have seen India broken and remade’: At 100, Brig Wazir Singh Choudhary remembers Partition, war, and hope
August 15, 2025 6:33 pm
Born on April 20, 1925 (his military records made him two years younger), in Gujranwala, undivided Punjab, Choudhary had been studying engineering in Delhi when riots swept through Punjab.
Partition, 79 years | At 92, she still remembers dhol beats: ‘...meant the mob is here’
August 15, 2025 3:53 am
After a week of hunger, thirst, and fear, they crossed into Indian territory via Ferozepur. But there was no warm welcome. “People looked at us like we were aliens,” she recalls. “They called us bahrle (outsiders).”
Partition, 79 years | A gun, a promise, and desi ghee: Amid bloodlust, a tale of kinship
August 15, 2025 10:10 am
Today, as a father of five sons and one daughter, Harjai oversees three electroplating factories. But the memories of Partition — and of the friend who stood guard through the longest night of his family’s life — remain vivid.
Partition a dark chapter born out of Congress' appeasement politics: Yogi Adityanath
August 15, 2025 1:37 am
Credits PM Narendra Modi with reviving forgotten history by dedicating Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in 2021
How 6 writers – from Amrita Pritam to Faiz Ahmad Faiz – chronicled the Partition
August 29, 2025 3:34 pm
These six voices remind us that 1947 was both a victory and a loss. Independence was won, but the price was measured in blood and displacement due to the Partition and in questions of belonging that still echo.
How Tyeb Mehta’s signature ‘bulls’ symbolised ‘the condition of human captivity’
August 17, 2025 1:22 pm
Much like a powerful bull in a slaughterhouse, Tyeb Mehta believed that human potential could not be fully realised because of surrounding circumstances.
The last train to India: Bhisham Sahni and the stories Partition left behind
August 18, 2025 12:46 pm
A look at how Bhisham Sahni’s Partition journey became the thread in his fiction and a testament to his effort at remembering what history would rather forget.
Nationalist history presents India as Bharat Varsha, but British were conquering territories based on economic sense: Sam Dalrymple
September 09, 2025 12:55 pm
The writer on the myths of national history, the Empire’s hidden corners, the wedges driven by narrow visions of Hindu and Muslim nationalism, and what led him to his first book, 'Shattered Lands'. Edited excerpts:
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