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Torn apart by Partition, an Indo-Pak reunion of families in Mecca

November 21, 2023 3:12 pm

The families, which was divided during the Partition in 1947, had made several previous attempts to meet, only to see their efforts come to a naught owing to a multitude of reasons.

Delhi Rewind: How DLF built colonies in Delhi for aspirational Partition migrants

April 17, 2022 8:41 am

Long before the DLF turned Gurgaon from a humble hamlet to one of the fastest growing cities in India, it was in Delhi that the company created some of the city’s most opulent neighbourhoods.

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Parted 70 years, brothers ask for visa: ‘Let us spend rest of lives together’

January 14, 2022 8:08 am

Seventy-four years after the border split the two Punjabs, leaving Sikka and his mother on one side and his elder brother Sadiq Khan and father in the Pakistani part – never to be together again – all it took for the search to end was a video shared on social media.

Will South Asia go blind?

October 25, 2021 7:38 am

P Chidambaram writes: If some Indians — not all —can find excuses to taunt, abuse, harm, hurt, terrorise or kill fellow Indians who are Muslims, will not Hindus and Sikhs living in other countries become the objects of taunts, abuse, harm, hurt, terror or homicide? In a combustible sub-continent, ‘action’ and ‘reaction’ can never be neatly separated.

An insecure nationalism has taken hold

September 21, 2021 7:44 am

Milind Murugkar writes: Partition Day signals an idea of India that is uncomfortable with history’s complexities

Why isn't Telangana government celebrating the liberation of Hyderabad?

September 19, 2021 7:52 am

G Kishan Reddy writes: By not celebrating it, we would be turning a blind eye to the sacrifices made by the brave men and women who fought so that they could see their land be integrated with the Indian Union.

Memorialising Past

September 05, 2021 4:43 pm

Instead of nationalising an event of trauma and freezing it in the frame of time as a day, a memorial or a series of memorials rooted in the context of their time and space are what we need to not forget the trauma of Partition and remember it humanely

The false dichotomy between Partition remembrance and Indian ethos

August 26, 2021 7:19 am

Vijay Chauthaiwale writes: Pratap Bhanu Mehta's argument that a remembrance of the horrors of Partition is somehow against building a modern, just India, is not only baseless but also a skilful 'whitewash project'.

FM praises 'secular' Maulana Azad,Modi says some leaders forgotten

November 12, 2013 1:53 am

Chidambaram said Azad opposed partition even after Patel and Nehru had reconciled to it.

Modi,Manmohan at it again; history,geography the latest battlefield

February 18, 2014 12:54 pm

Modi hit back at PM,saying Congress was responsible for Partition and neglect of freedom fighters.

Exclusive: Land reforms to law to aid rape survivors, to be in Mahagathbandhan manifesto

Political Pulse20 min ago

The Mahagathbandhan alliance in Bihar is set to release a joint manifesto, which will include promises such as setting up hostels and degree colleges for OBC students, implementing land reforms, and prioritising rape survivors' access to medical reports. The manifesto will also address issues faced by EBCs and ensure fair trials and speedy justice for rape survivors.

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