Bollywood has been making Partition films since 1973. As 'Main Vaapas Aaunga' arrives in June 2026, here is what 50 years of these films reveal — and who they are actually made for.
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.
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.
Every coin has two sides, and so do partitions. While the birth of new nation-states is celebrated, the human cost is often forgotten.
‘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.
The day is being observed to give a fitting tribute to all those who lost their lives and were displaced in one of the most horrific tragedies in human history.
Bengal, the biggest province of the country before partition lost its preeminence in truncated India after independence, due to its much reduced population.
Supporting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's statement on the country's partition, Abdullah said had there been no partition, the country would have been more powerful with both the communities co-existing peacefully.
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.
Relatives separated from their families could not be traced for years, and many reconciled to live without their loved ones. It was never confirmed whether people lost in the migration survived or were killed on the journeys.
