Topic: Partition
Pakistan Army emotionally blackmails its population with its own idea of India
In Pakistan, the prosperity of the army is paramount and the people are working to secure its future.
Saeeda Bano, first woman Urdu news reader who got marriage offers and ‘go to Pakistan’ letters
Saeeda Bano landed the job of news broadcaster for All India Radio’s Urdu service with some help from Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, a keen supporter of women’s rights.
Collaboration the way forward — India-Pakistan artists, writers on peace across borders
Indian and Pakistani names including Dr Syeda Hameed, Nandita Das, Salima Hashmi & writer Mohd Hanif participated in an online discussion ahead of Independence Day of both nations.
Indian secularism still has a future if followers stop blame game with RSS: Rajmohan Gandhi
Yogendra Yadav's understanding of Abhay Dubey's book on Indian secularism is indisputable. But let's not forget that secularism forced even RSS to accept lower-caste Hindus.
Doordarshan’s Buniyaad, a family drama that masterfully captured the pangs of Partition
Buniyaad was put together by stellar performances, writing that relied on realism and authentic production design that brought pre-Partition Hindustan to the small screen.
73 yrs ago, Sylhet Referendum left a Hindu community homeless between Assam and Bangladesh
The Sylhet Referendum of 1947 led to the Partition of the state of Assam, but it left Sylheti Hindus in strife for decades.
The Pind Collective, an India-Pakistan art project that’s now focusing on responses to Covid
The initiative unites artists from both sides of the border on a website where they share their work and respond to each other’s pieces.
In search of home in a pandemic — Gulzar’s new poem likens migrant crisis to Partition
Between Partition and the migrant exodus, Gulzar says he doesn't know which is worse. Read the poem and translation by Rakhshanda Jalil.
India’s Covid-19 exodus isn’t like Partition but 2020 has one thing in common with 1947
Covid-19 & Partition share one key element which leaders today overlooked as cavalierly as the founders of India and Pakistan did in 1947: Fear.
Oral history work goes remote as 1947 Partition Archive opts to ‘work-from-home’
The Archive's work typically involves conducting in-person interviews with individuals who are 75+, an age group particularly vulnerable to coronavirus.
Erdogan’s assault on Macron is the height of cynicism
There was a time when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t see the West as Turkey’s enemy and even wanted to join the European Union.
Turkey waging new war of economic liberation, says Erdogan after country’s currency falls
Erogan's speech follows the Turkish lira weakening to a record low of 8.3849 per dollar on Friday.
Defence
Here is why US changed Rajnath Singh’s statement on ‘reckless aggression’ by China
Both the US State and Defense departments have added footnotes to the transcripts they released on Rajnath Singh’s remarks at 2+2. The State Department has also updated the text.
5 reasons for the crisis in global Islam
If tens of crores of Muslims across the world feel they are victims of mass Islamophobia, their holy prophet shown deliberate disrespect, it is a sense of crisis and siege.