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Mona Verma’s The River That Remembers book cover

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.

I was in Class VI when I became a regular visitor to my neighbours’ houses to buy the seasonal fruits: Guava, jujube, and olive. (Photo:

Who is my neighbour: My neighbours don’t touch my food. But how can we prevent the smell?

November 20, 2025 10:38 pm

I dream of becoming a wood mouse someday. They don’t know religion, caste or creed. They steal paddy sheaves from our fields and feast with them in my neighbours’. Perhaps, then, I would be able to find my neighbour

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.

In an India that is replaying the ethos of Partition, why we need to read Toba Tek Singh and Topi Shukla

October 16, 2025 3:53 pm

At a time when India risks losing its civilisational promise of diversity and coexistence, we need to listen once again to Bishan Singh’s mutterings and Topi Shukla’s silences

Who's my neighbour: CR Park and Kalkaji together make the perfect metaphor for Delhi. I live at the junction of both

September 10, 2025 1:23 pm

From CR Park, I inherited culture, ritual, and the value of community memory. From Kalkaji, I learned resilience, adaptability, and the simple pleasures of everyday life

The module quotes Muhammad Ali Jinnah as saying he never thought partition would happen or that he would see Pakistan in his lifetime. Jawaharlala Nehru is quoted saying it was as "bad" but "unavoidable"

BJP, Congress war of words over NCERT special module on ‘culprits’ of Partition

August 17, 2025 3:13 am

Both modules open with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2021 message announcing the observance of Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.

Partition shattered Sanatan Bharat’s unity... Congress divided nation in greed for power: Yogi Adityanath

August 14, 2025 12:35 pm

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was addressing an event in Lucknow on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, where he credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with "reviving this forgotten history".

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.

Kids from the Cycle Merchants Housing Society celebrating a festival

Rawalpindi to Rasta Peth: how Partition refugees rebuilt their lives and thrived in Pune's Cycle Merchants Society

August 13, 2025 12:30 pm

Once a haven for Sikh refugees following India’s Partition, Pune’s Cycle Merchants Housing Society has evolved from a bicycle business centre to a multicultural community that now stands as a symbol of resilience and harmony.

The needless provocations of General Asim Munir

April 29, 2025 3:41 pm

Pakistan army chief should know that his invocation of the two-nation theory is short-sighted and counter-productive. His views are unacceptable to all Indians who believe that faith cannot define nationalism