Indira Verma says it is almost as if she underwent two separate births — the physical one in Peshawar and a rebirth in India. And Lest We Forget is a repository of this experience.
Published by Penguin India, ‘1947-1957, India: the Birth of a Republic’, will be released on 28 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.
In ‘Shadows at Noon’, Joya Chatterji tells the subcontinent's story — from the British Raj through Independence and Partition to the forging of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
In 'Caste and Partition in Bengal', Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhuri talk about a critical aspect of the Dalit exodus during 1950 in Bengal.
Indian PMs have always hoisted the tricolor from the ramparts of the Red Fort. Other locations can be Hampi in Karnataka, Lothal in Gujarat, or Nalanda in Bihar, writes Kaushik Mukherjee.
Designating opponents as the best friend of India and Israel works like a charm in Pakistan. These publicly available photographs mean something else in Pakistani universe.
Pakistan observes 27 October as Kashmir Black Day to mark the anniversary of the day the Indian Army arrived in J&K to fight off the 1947 Pakistani invasion.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar was attacked on Twitter after claiming that Jawaharlal Nehru did not want Vallabhbhai Patel in his cabinet in 1947.
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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