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.

An excerpt from ‘He Almost Prevented Partition: The Life and Times of Dr MC Davar’, by Praveen Davar.

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 ...

Sneh Bhargava, AIIMS New Delhi's only woman director, was called upon to treat Gandhi after she was shot in 1984.

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 ...

"The partition of India in 1947 was a messy affair, but pinning it on Mahatma Gandhi alone is lazy. Gandhi pushed for unity and opposed partition, even fasting to stop communal violence," the AI ...

Speculation of a military takeover is swirling in Pakistan, coinciding with the 47th anniversary of Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s 1977 ...

Centenarian artist Krishen Khanna continues to paint the paradox of wealth & poverty in his works ...

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi praises abrogation of Article 370 as correction of historic blunder during Syama Prasad ...