Partition

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.

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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

At home with Irfan Habib: The History Keeper

January 25, 2025 3:29 pm

He was 19 when the Republic was born. In the 75 years since then, as the nation grappled with new identities and aspirations, Irfan Habib spent years uncovering India’s complex history, helping generations to make sense of their present.

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In Bapsi Sidhwa’s fiction, the truth of Partition’s trauma

January 03, 2025 10:17 pm

Reading ‘Ice-Candy-Man’ (1988), I realised how fiction can humanise history. The story, narrated through the eyes of a young girl, showed the human cost of the division, beyond its politicisation through nationalistic lenses.

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Bapsi Sidhwa, Parsi writer who took Partition to the world, dies at 86

December 27, 2024 10:21 pm

She died Wednesday in Houston, Texas. She was 86. She is survived by her novels known for their comedy, tragedy and seamless fusion of the political and personal.

Sikh man reunites with family in Pakistan after 77 years, BharatMatrimony faces backlash and more: Top 5 viral videos today

November 08, 2024 4:40 pm

A look at the top five viral videos of the day.

'Punjabiyat first': Villagers come together to restore mosques abandoned after Partition

July 10, 2023 9:00 am

165 restored in the past few years, almost entirely by voluntary donations, in a state where Muslim population fell from nearly half to less than 2% post-Independence