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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

Ajeet Cour does not so much write about artists as she communes with them.

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.

Justice JC Verma (retd) at his Chandigarh residence.

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.

Partition, 79 years: ‘I have seen India broken — & remade’

‘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.

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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

Authors and poets such as Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Bhisham Sahani, Amrita Pritam, Khiushwant Singh, Manto and Salman Rushdie wrote of Independence and the Partition

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.