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Bridging Hearts Across Borders : A YouTube video... & a man’s mission: to reunite partition-separated families

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.

At 92, she still remembers dhol beats: ‘...meant the mob is here’

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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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.

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.

Bhisham Sahni on a train running between India and Pakistan.

The last train to India: Bhisham Sahni and the stories Partition left behind

August 18, 2025 12:46 pm

A look at how Bhisham Sahni’s Partition journey became the thread in his fiction and a testament to his effort at remembering what history would rather forget.

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Bolti Khidki | Three friends from India, Pak record painful, chilling stories of Partition survivors in new Oxford book

October 08, 2023 12:09 pm

While Sandeep Dutt and Faisal Hayat’s journey started six years back and the duo collected stories from 200 Partition survivors, many died in the meanwhile, mostly during Covid, and could not live to see the publication of the book, the authors lament.

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Hamdard India head on why Rooh Afza is an Indian drink: 'It is older than Pakistan and Bangladesh'

September 14, 2022 6:17 pm

The history of the drink goes back to pre-Partition India -- all the way back to a single family -- when there did not exist any Pakistan, or even Bangladesh

Hashtag Politics | Partition video; Savarkar over Nehru in Karnataka ad: BJP & Cong lock horns

August 15, 2022 7:19 am

After BJP video blaming Congress for Partition comes Jairam Ramesh’s riposte; Oppn party also takes offence at Karnataka govt not mentioning India’s first PM in an ad celebrating freedom fighters.

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How Punjabi refugee dispersed into many corners of India, shaping national culture, and being embraced by friendship

January 26, 2020 9:41 am

'I grew up at the crossroads of many languages: Punjabi at home, Odia with my nanny, Hindi on the streets, and English at school. Which then is my mother tongue? What papers of authenticity will I be able to show? Where do I belong?'

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