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British India’s partition and its consequences for the community life in India and Pakistan have been a recurrent theme in the films of the subcontinent since the 1940s. Many scholars of film studies ...
For most of us, the partition of India no doubt refers to the 1947 division of British-controlled India into the modern Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
It was while researching the impact of Partition on Tripura and Northeast India for Dastaan that the book idea first came together.
Though nominated five times, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. On the shortlist in 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, just days before the committee's final ...
An excerpt from ‘He Almost Prevented Partition: The Life and Times of Dr MC Davar’, by Praveen Davar.
My Silk Road: The adventures and struggles of a British Asian Refugee by Ram Gidoomal CBE is the story of a rich boy turned ...
Sneh Bhargava, AIIMS New Delhi's only woman director, was called upon to treat Gandhi after she was shot in 1984.
Uranus, our side-spinning planet of rebellion, liberation, and chaos with a capital C, swaps the placid materialist pastures ...
Centenarian artist Krishen Khanna continues to paint the paradox of wealth & poverty in his works ...
Ram Krishan Singh, a 102-year-old survivor of the 1947 Partition, passed away in Punjab's Patiala. During the violent ...
Sam Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands, explores the impact of five major Partitions on modern Asia through oral histories and ...
Speculation of a military takeover is swirling in Pakistan, coinciding with the 47th anniversary of Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s 1977 ...