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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Partition - The Untold Story

The Social Life of Indian Trains review: A journey that misses out many worlds

Indian railways, as a social microcosm of the country, have long figured in reflections and commentary on India. They find their way into literary narratives of many kinds, and into screen portrayals too. In these tellings, the train carries a cross-section: class, region, habit, speech, and silence, held together in…

Newslaundry

India’s Pak strategy needs a 2025 update

In the immediate aftermath of war this summer, India’s establishment, media cells, B-Team media and a co-opted celebrityverse determined on a zero sum approach. Terror means war. Blood means water denial. Collaboration in non-strategic areas means boycott.

Newslaundry

The CAA, Muslim exclusion and the lens of the right

If the right seeks to justify Muslim exclusion in the CAA owing to Partition, it needs to be blamed for deliberately failing to appreciate the resistance that Muslims launched against Partition

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Partition lives on in north-east Indian literature

The refugee as 'other' has emerged as a common theme in literature from India's north-east, after the region saw an influx of people following 1947's Partition.

360info

A London diaspora district remembers a queen — ambivalently

Southall is a district in West London that's filled with members of the South Asian diapora

The Independent UK

Wounded souls: 75 years after India's Partition, survivors' trauma has still not been recognized

In his poignant, much-acclaimed short story “Toba Tek Singh,” Pakistani playwright Saadat Hasan Manto describes the plight of Bishan Singh, an inmate of the asylum in Lahore. In the story, set in a post-Partition era, the governments of India and Pakistan decide to exchange inmates: the Muslims among them are…

The Conversation

Salman Rushdie: where to start with this pioneering and controversial author

On the eve of India’s 75th anniversary of independence (August 15), the 75-year-old Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage in New York. Thankfully, the author survived the attack. But you might be wondering how a writer came to be the target of such violence.

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India at 75 | A look at important Partition literature: Booker-winning Tomb of Sand, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, and others

All of these works use compelling metaphors for the state of relations between India and Pakistan

The Hindu

How the most iconic "Ms. Marvel" scene confirmed the show’s “enormity”

Pakistani pop musician and actor Mehwish Hayat portrayed Kamala Khan's great-grandmother, Aisha, in the Disney+ series.

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