Tag: Partition

By coincidence, two top former diplomats of India and Pakistan, who had almost brought the issue of Jammu and Kashmir ...

Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...

Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the ...

75 years back, at the time of the partition when there was bloodshed in the name of homeland, nation, and ...

In the district of Jhang is a tehsil called Shorkot. It is an ancient city once known as Sibipura, although ...

This article cannot start without mentioning the first female artist that Pakistan ever had. She, in turn, paved the way ...

As I feel thoughtful about the past and future of Pakistan, 75 years after its independence, a video of a ...

Sometimes we forget – or more aptly put, consciously ignore – the actual partitioning process that took place during the ...

Over the last two decades or so, I am looking at the erasure of how some 3-400,000 stranded human beings ...

There is an online trend amongst Indians who want to boycott Aamir Khan’s upcoming movie, where he plays the role ...

Ambassador Dinkar Srivastava is an Indian career diplomat with a long involvement in representing the Indian point of view and ...

Where are we headed? First, let’s consider how we got here. Pakistan is no stranger to uncertainty. It’s as if ...

Every afternoon after school, Shahid Zaidi would end up at his father’s studio Zaidis Photographers, and seek the coolness of ...

The powerful play goes on… a show of glamour and folly, buttressing exclusionary notions of the past, with democratic undertones, ...

Marvel's latest show 'Ms Marvel' has given the South Asian community a lot to debate over, from beloved actors making ...

When Arundhati Roy wrote ““History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things.” Maybe ...

The past few months have seen several instances of tearful reunions with members of divided families from either side of ...

This is a sad tale. A tale of an unfortunate woman. A tale to reaffirm that life is not fair; ...

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was a fascinating institution with distinct values and beliefs. It came into existence under the ...

If I were to sit down and make a list of ten people who have impressed and influenced me most ...

From its glorious past interwoven into the first war of independence of the subcontinent in 1857 to becoming the language ...

Two brothers separated by the Partition were able to reconnect for a second time in their village near Faisalabad, after ...

The first part of this article described the massacre of Muslims in August 1947 in Rupnagar, East Punjab. In this ...

Siblings separated by the 1947 Partition and reunited a few weeks ago in 2022, Muhammad Siddique and his younger brother ...

One pleasant reward of writing for an online magazine like the one you are reading right now is the wide ...

The musical kokila (nightingale) Lata Mangeshkar is among us no more. As long as music lives, she will remain the ...