The story of Partition is not a straightforward narrative of the binary opposition of two communities. Any memorialisation of our own Partition should also encompass similar sufferings that people in ...

“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 ...

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 ...

My father crossed many rivers in his lifetime. He was born in 1941 by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra that joins the mighty Padma, 80 kilometres downstream at Goalondo Ghat. Their ...