Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded coach railway train near New Delhi, trying to leave India after the 1947 Partition. AP Photo Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when ...
Star-crossed lovers. Intoxicating scents. Old war journals containing ghosts and secrets. What more could you want in a work of historical fiction? Aanchal Malhotra’s debut novel “The Book of ...
The summer of 1947 did more than just split a country -- it split families, homes, and the very idea of belonging. In the weeks that followed the announcement of Partition, trains became coffins on ...
Indians in a courtyard beneath the Red Fort celebrating the first anniversary of India’s independence, in New Delhi ,1948. (Photo by Max Desfor / AP) In the front parlor of a boarding house in 1950s ...
In his new book, Midnight's Furies, Nisid Hajari describes the riots and massacres that ensued after Pakistan was established as a separate state,... India's 1947 Partition And The 'Deadly Legacy' ...
The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 is, in a big way, the source of many of the troubles that the region witnesses today. Much literature has been produced narrating the man-made tragedy ...
At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2026, Sudha Murty emphasised the importance of teaching children about India’s Partition, ...
Pakistani high school student Noman Afzal knows "traitorous" Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that erupted when British India split into two nations 70 years ago. His history textbook tells him ...
The question is unsettling. It resists comfort and refuses the ease of inherited certainties. Yet, on Republic Day, when ...
"Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), a new book by Nisid Hajari (L). (Author photo: Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The following ...
Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had ...
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