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Indu Mitha’s love story carried Bharatanatyam across Partition, kept it alive in Pakistan
September 07, 2026 4:17 pm
Mitha’s family was as opposed to the match as Indu’s, on grounds of culture and religion, especially amid the divisive space that the Subcontinent had become then.
Memories of Partition from a railway station in Delhi
August 16, 2026 12:13 pm
The station witnessed thousands of Muslims saying goodbye forever to their homeland and their loved ones. From here, trains used to leave regularly for Lahore.
How an exclusive gated residential society in Aundh has roots in Partition
August 15, 2026 3:45 pm
Spread across 125 acres, the community has retained its bungalow-only character while becoming increasingly cosmopolitan
Nitin Nabin invokes Partition horrors to launch fresh attack on Nehru-Gandhi family
August 15, 2026 5:54 am
Addressing a remembrance event in Gurugram, where he paid tributes to the martyrs and the displaced families affected by the Partition, Nabin attacked Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for his behaviour, adding that it was not acceptable to the nation’s youth.
‘Among most dehumanising chapters’: Vice-President on India-Pak partition at DU
August 14, 2026 10:36 pm
The Vice-President spoke about the suffering of women during Partition, referring to accounts of abduction, assault, forced marriage and conversion.
Shabana Azmi on Batwara 1947, Awarapan 2 releasing on same day: 'Last happened in 1983'
August 13, 2026 8:45 am
Shabana Azmi, in an exclusive interview with SCREEN, discusses both her releases this week -- Batwara 1947 and Awarapan 2 -- and staying her busiest and most versatile at 75.
Preity Zinta only cooked and cleaned in Batwara 1947: 'A woman didn't have a career then'
August 06, 2026 9:50 am
Preity Zinta opened up on why she chose to return to Bollywood after eight years with Batwara 1947, and why she'll continue to work sparingly in the future.
In ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’, the songs that Partition couldn’t silence
July 02, 2026 2:09 am
We are living in times when cinema is reducing complex histories into binaries. ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’, instead, talks of cultural commonalities, ones that have endured
Main Vaapas Aaunga: The distance between memory and home
June 23, 2026 4:46 pm
This is not simply a film about Partition. It urges us to remember so that future generations know that homes were lost even as the yearning to return endured
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.
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