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‘Hindustani Memne’: Reclaiming forgotten histories, questioning comfortable narratives
February 06, 2026 3:45 pm
Set against the backdrop of the Second World War (1939-45), the novel details how the British Empire mobilised Indian soldiers for its wars, treating them as expendable manpower.
From Lahore to Patiala, a shared classroom legacy endures
January 21, 2026 3:14 pm
140 years of Aitchison Lahore, 78 of YPS Patiala: India-Pak institutions with shared history, legacy set to celebrate their “old boys”
Ritwik Ghatak and the cinematic memory of Partition
November 17, 2025 2:44 pm
Far from depicting Partition as a mere historical event, Ghatak examined its ongoing, everyday effects through stories of uprooted families, dispossessed women, and lost childhoods, using melodrama not for escapism but as a radical reflection of social wounds
The Blue Potter: The clay, the colour, the continuum
November 16, 2025 10:07 am
The Blue Potter is Ajeet Cour’s lyrical remembrance of artists and visionaries, blending memory, art, politics, and empathy to show how living itself becomes a crafted, enduring art.
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
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