5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath On the 75th anniversary, scholars share their favorite work that best explains the trauma of a ...

Books Book Review: Partition Memoirs From Two Bengals What is evident is that after so many years since the event and numerous testimonials to that effect, one can never seem to come to terms with ...

Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj, president Ramakrishna Math and Mission released two books titled, Illuminating thoughts of Swami Gambhirananda in English and Chintaloke Swami Gambhirananda in Bengali to ...

"The Bleeding Border - Stories of Bengal Partition" (Niyogi Books) is an anthology of 24 partition stories written by both prominent and lesser-known authors from West Bengal and Bangladesh. The ...

The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly an administrative measure to provide relief to an overburdened state, it laid down the footprint of a longer partition ...

A vast number of poems have been written in Bengali on the Partition. However, until now, those poems had never been translated. That long-overdue task has finally been accomplished.

Voices from the margins: Dalit, women refugee accounts of the Bengal Partition Though the writings on Partition are rightly about loss, writers are also looking at other areas. While a Dalit ...

The canon of Partition literature — at least in the English language — is overwhelmed by stories from Punjab. Ghosh’s debut novel directs readers’ attention to the Partition of Bengal.

A still from Ritwik Ghatak's 'Subarnarekha'. The Bengal Partition, the backdrop of Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay's 'Acharya Kripalani Colony', also had immense impact on Ghatak's films Source: IMDB The ...

He wrote about Partition from the perspective of insane asylum residents and prostitutes and, in so doing, powerfully illustrated the unimaginable horrors and absurdities of Partition.

The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly an administrative measure to provide relief to an overburdened state, it laid down the footprint of a longer partition ...