My memory is again in the way of your history. Agha Shahid Ali
Dhaka has gone through many ups and downs over the past few centuries.
Songs give a voice to the timelessness of the body’s performative archive.
Nehru was revolted by Nazism and the persecution of Europe’s Jews. Bose…felt that the Indian struggle for freedom should override all other considerations.
In our school textbooks, Partition was a minor detail in the climax of the rousing story of the Indian National Movement.
One man’s journey through the events of 1947 and 1971, and his experience of being a refugee and then a stateless person.
Narratives from the peripheries are needed to balance out the indocentrism of Partition Studies
Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon in this part of the world.
In 1947, “United India” got vivisected, in which Bengal experienced the divide along with Punjab.
With the expansion of the publishing business, bookshops also sprang up in various parts of Old Dhaka, particularly in Chawkbazar, Islampur, Mughaltuli and Patuatuli. It is estimated that the number of bookshops in Dhaka till 1900 were no less than 40.
There is a plot embedded here, but this novel is so much more: a long, winding journey, centred on a family, with acute eyes on love and distances within a family, but also through language, Partition and imposed borders, and so much more.
On the 75th anniversary of the 1947 Partition, we look back at the testimonies of the veteran politician, Prabhas Chandra Lahiri; the young political activist, Tajuddin Ahmed; and Professor Ahmed Kamal's book comprising research on and stories of the time.
While the Partition of 1947 is a chapter that historians are constantly bringing up, one question rarely explored is what does the Partition mean for the Millennials and Gen Zs? How much do our younger generations know of the significance of the Great Divide?
Metaphors have never made more sense to me than when these two swapped but intertwined lives personified India and Pakistan, the two newborn countries, whose births were marked by blood, pain and trauma.
The event will discuss the Bengal Partition of 1905, a second Partition of Bengal—and the Indian subcontinent in 1947—and the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. The Salon will showcase aspects of these partitions, living histories that bind India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Perhaps the book's best aspect is how it allows space for the stories of those who perpetrated violence during Partition.
On June 3, 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, announced his plan for the partition of the subcontinent—in particular that of Punjab and Bengal.
After 75 years, a Pakistani woman – separated from her family after the 1947 Partition – reunited with her Indian brothers for the first time last month.
