Partition
Tracing the first decade's events leading from one Partition — that created Pakistan — to the next — that created Bangladesh — and the role of Pakistan's first opposition party.
Updated 17 Aug, 2024 10:20pm
Village residents warmly welcome 78-year-old Sikka Khan.
Updated 28 Mar, 2022 09:52am
FO's condemnation comes after Modi government declares August 14 "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day".
Updated 14 Aug, 2021 08:56pm
The study is based on nearly 30,000 face-to-face interviews conducted between late 2019 and early 2020.
Updated 05 Jul, 2021 10:40am
“Pakistan, East and West, was a dream state, which became a nightmare,” says Javed Jabbar.
Updated 25 Dec, 2019 09:32am
According to co-founder Sparsh Ahuja, the project highlights how deep-rooted the partition sentiment is.
Updated 14 Aug, 2019 12:53pm
Mai was a Sufi soul. She was one with the infinite beyond borders, time, religion and all that can be divided.
Updated 29 Aug, 2017 09:55am
Not many know that Rawalpindi was one of the starting points of the massacres during Partition.
Updated 15 Aug, 2017 03:09pm
The Gujarat riots, lynchings of Muslims, attacks on Hindu temples and forced conversions are all residues of Partition.
Updated 01 Mar, 2019 07:53pm
From our 1990 archives, the late M B Naqvi reflects on how far Pakistan has deviated from the Pakistan Resolution, 1940
Published 13 Aug, 2017 01:19pm
We ask some celebrated fiction writers to imagine what things might be like 70 years into the future.
Updated 15 Aug, 2017 12:17pm
When the British finally departed the Indian subcontinent in 1947, after nearly 200 years, they left it split in two.
Updated 28 Aug, 2017 12:43am
For several years now, organisations on both sides of the border have been hurrying to record the stories of survivors.
Updated 28 Jul, 2017 07:54am
The book launch of Train to Pakistan led to some interesting discussions on history
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
Dilip Hiro’s The Longest August is a comprehensive but unilluminating account of Indo-Pak relations
Published 22 Nov, 2015 07:20am
Nisid Hajari writes a fast-paced albeit unbalanced account of the Partition
Published 09 Aug, 2015 07:55am
The tragedies and devastating impact of 1947 as captured in literature
Published 09 Aug, 2015 07:55am
A compilation of oral histories brings to light the stories of Pakistan’s Partition generation
Published 09 Aug, 2015 07:55am
What the compilation of Zulmat-e-Neem Roz tells us about literary history
Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am
Pakistani literature veers between a post-Partition identity and a reality fraught with violence
Published 03 May, 2015 07:33am
