We can call this book a bitter-sweet love story between Asha and Firoze. Based on Partition, the book follows Asha having to leave her village and the newly formed Pakistan. Her family is massacred ...

The summer of 1947 did more than just split a country -- it split families, homes, and the very idea of belonging. In the weeks that followed the announcement of Partition, trains became coffins on ...

LAHORE: A book titled “Partition and Locality -- Violence, Migration, and Development in Gujranwala and Sialkot, 1947-1961” by Ilyas Chattha was launched at Oxford Bookshop in Gulberg’s Mini Market on ...

Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded coach railway train near New Delhi, trying to leave India after the 1947 Partition. AP Photo Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when ...

“The Partition is still present,” says Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra. “Its wounds are not shallow. They run deep.” The author is, however, against “condensing” the event to just violence. How does ...

In a conversation with TOI Books, writer Manreet Sodhi Someshwar talked about 'The Partition Trilogy', wounds of the Partition, and more. Pic credit: HarperCollins India The partition of India and ...

A new book of Partition memoirs is not a fait accompli. There could always be some scepticism about what more there could be to Partition than what is known already. After all, it happened seven-and-a ...

Seventy four years ago, on August 15, 1947, the British Raj ended after a near-200 year rule, forming an independent India and Pakistan; from the latter, Bangladesh would emerge in 1971. What led to ...

If you roam around Old Dhaka, you will come across multiple road names associated with Basaks such as Madan Mohan Basak Lane and Radhika Mohan Basak Lane. The Basaks were a sub-group of weavers who, ...