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Topic: Partition

Can psychiatry heal wounds of history? Delhi doctors say ‘battle for the mind’ is political

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.

Whatever some people say, I am convinced Partition has been good for India—Sardar Patel

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.

Why was Peshawar called Pushpapura? Returning to Pakistan after 53 years, I got the answer

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.

Partition calendars, Gandhi-Jinnah posters—pre-Independence public art of India and Pakistan

Filmmaker Yousuf Saeed’s 'Bazaar Art' collection of calendars, posters, and greeting cards examines pre-independence India, freedom struggle, and Partition through ordinary artifacts.

A memoir about 3 Peshawar sisters traces Partition history with new lens. No blood & gore

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.

Punjab’s in 2-decade stall. Lift the kohrra, or people want out

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.

Why did Congress leadership in 1947 ‘fall in line so easily’ with idea of Partition, asks Hardeep Puri

Speaking at exhibition commemorating 14 August as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’, Union minister & BJP leader Puri also asserts that ‘Akhand Bharat will emerge’.

Fatima Jinnah’s right-hand man was a Christian Kashmiri. New series explores the friendship

After last year’s 14-minute prologue director Danial Afzal is set to release the original soundtrack for the first season today, to coincide with Pakistan’s Independence Day.

Bongo, Bangla, Paschim Banga—West Bengal’s demand for name change was never taken seriously

s: For the first time, the central government rejected a state assembly’s unanimous resolution for a change of name in 2018. It was West Bengal.

Nehru once wandered around Delhi like a man in shock- horrors of Partition moved him

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.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.