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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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