Tag: Partition of India

‘Glad India was partitioned’: Congress leader K Natwar Singh

'Also, it could have been impossible for the simple reason that the Muslim League wouldn't have allowed the country to function,' he said.

February 10, 2020

Of surrogacy, life, relations and Partition

See how two women discover the best and the worst about India’s surrogacy industry; discover another meaning of life from the story of a woman who one day comes face-to-face with a treasure that lay buried in her heart for very long; learn that you have to disappoint those closest to you in order to …

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December 8, 2017

Pages from a harrowing past

The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 has become indissolubly linked to horrific, haunting images of armed gangs or mobs attacking helpless groups of men, women and children trying to cross a border that had just been scratched on the map. Literature registers the shock in works that make harrowing reading. Partition literature becomes …

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September 3, 2017

Tales of India-Pakistan Partition to go public

A collection of horrific and emotional tales of the Partition of India with over 4,300 witness interviews is set to go public for the first time this week, it was announced on Sunday. A portion of the complete oral history interviews will be released online on August 10 from Stanford University Library's Digital Repository, US-based …

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August 6, 2017