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Raj CM blames Congress for partition

Bhajan Lal Sharma held alleged appeasement politics of the grand old party responsible for the genocide and other hardships suffered by lakhs of Indians in the wake of 1947 partition of India.

From imperial capital to post-Partition Delhi

Vidya Bhushan Soni was Indian ambassador to Senegal, Jamaica, Fiji and Ukraine, but this memoir deals with his ancestral ties with New Delhi from the time the British Raj decided in 1911 to construct a new Indian capital.

The female side of Partition

Every coin has two sides, and so do partitions. While the birth of new nation-states is celebrated, the human cost is often forgotten.

Remembering Zarina Hashmi and the idea of home

‘You can never go home again.’ I do not feel at home anywhere, but the idea of home follows me wherever I go.” These are the words of Zarina Hashmi, who is known professionally as Zarina.

Price of Partition

Bengal, the biggest province of the country before partition lost its preeminence in truncated India after independence, due to its much reduced population.

India’s partition on religious basis was a historic mistake: Rajnath

Rajnath was inaugurating ''Swarnim Vijay Parv'', an event commemorating the valour and professionalism of the armed forces and their contribution to the liberation of Bangladesh in the Indo-Pak 1971 war, at India Gate Lawns here. The event marks the culmination of year-long celebrations of 50 years of India's victory in the war.