Better known for writing some of Raj Kapoor's all-time hits, Abbas also filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of pre-censorship on films.
Many have claimed that not much literature was produced in Bengal during the time compared to Punjab, where Partition literature was a genre in itself.
Lieutenant-colonel Khan’s marginality to today’s Hindu-nationalist pantheon helps us understand a larger story unfolding in Jammu and Kashmir: The story of a state that remains partitioned by a line drawn in blood.
History and politics play a role in the psyche of a nation and the mental health of its people. Just how much so was the crux of a panel discussion at Delhi’s IIC.
On 12 February 1949, Vallabhbhai Patel gave a speech at Chennai's Island Grounds where he spoke about the importance of unity and how the government had been dealing with the RSS movement.
In 'Lest We Forget', Indira Varma recalls how she traced her past in Peshawar, and how the city had become unrecognisable so many years after Partition.
Filmmaker Yousuf Saeed’s 'Bazaar Art' collection of calendars, posters, and greeting cards examines pre-independence India, freedom struggle, and Partition through ordinary artifacts.
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.
Punjabis know how to weather adversity. They did so after Partition, and later after the phase of terror and militancy ended in 1993. Then the state lost its way.
Speaking at exhibition commemorating 14 August as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’, Union minister & BJP leader Puri also asserts that ‘Akhand Bharat will emerge’.
Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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