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Against all odds | How nonagenarian Pune resident travelled alone to Pakistan to visit childhood home
April 16, 2026 12:17 pm
Journalists in Rawalpindi located her childhood house and offered to facilitate the trip.
The River That Remembers: Blood, borders, and the burden of memory
February 26, 2026 3:11 pm
Mona Verma’s The River That Remembers is a slow-burning elegy for everything that was broken and never fully buried in 1947.
‘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).”
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