The fate of religious minorities in South Asia is evidently interconnected, necessitating profound reflection on how to handle it for the region’s peace and prosperity ...

The communal identities it created eventually culminated into the end of British rule, the partition of India in 1947, with Bengal being divided into West Bengal and East Pakistan, and finally ...

Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of plotting to delete the names of Hindi-speaking Hindu voters and backward caste Bengali Hindus who ...

Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New ...

Caste’s subterranean presence can be attributed to a number of factors, including the hegemonic dominance of Bengal’s social spaces by the 'bhadralok' constituency ...

The mighty Ganga meets the Brahmaputra as the Padma in Bangladesh. It is the delta of this river that forms most of ...

One of Pakistan’s most pressing issues is the lack of access to quality education, particularly in rural areas. According to UNESCO, nearly 22 million children are out of school, and literacy rates ...

Many railway lines, stations and routes were shut down, many services were discontinued and much of the equipment was ...

The story of artefacts in the Indian subcontinent, whether through their division during the Partition of 1947 ... The ‘Priest-King’ of Mohenjo-daro was sent to Pakistan’s National Museum in Karachi, ...

KARACHI: “We are at least a hundred times stronger today than what we were at the time of partition ... East Pakistan members who had expressed concern over the war hysteria in West Bengal ...

The notion of a separate homeland was fully formulated gradually in 1940-47 as the political movement for Pakistan carried on in these years. One cannot understand the establishment of Pakistan ...