partition history
'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
Divakaruni has a message to send with this novel. To her, independence entails not just liberation or freedom from subjugation, it also means doing the right thing for oneself and for the people around us.
75 years of Partition: A young boy's loss
I belong to a generation that was overtaken by the pestilence called Partition.
75 Years of Partition / Dhaka before and after Partition
Dhaka has gone through many ups and downs over the past few centuries.
Partition 1947: Displaced Music: Partition through the senses
Songs give a voice to the timelessness of the body’s performative archive.
75 years of Partition: How the Noakhali riots came to be
Communal tension brewing for years led to the violent riots the year before Partition.
Partition 1947: The art of remembering
In our school textbooks, Partition was a minor detail in the climax of the rousing story of the Indian National Movement.
Partition 1947: Lessons we need to un/learn
Narratives from the peripheries are needed to balance out the indocentrism of Partition Studies
Partition 1947: The perennial shadow of communalism
Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon in this part of the world.
Partition 1947 / ‘Tailor-Made’ Partition: Saga of an Orchestrated Disaster
In 1947, “United India” got vivisected, in which Bengal experienced the divide along with Punjab.
'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
Divakaruni has a message to send with this novel. To her, independence entails not just liberation or freedom from subjugation, it also means doing the right thing for oneself and for the people around us.
75 years of Partition: A young boy's loss
I belong to a generation that was overtaken by the pestilence called Partition.
Dhaka before and after Partition
Dhaka has gone through many ups and downs over the past few centuries.
Partition 1947: Displaced Music: Partition through the senses
Songs give a voice to the timelessness of the body’s performative archive.
75 years of Partition: How the Noakhali riots came to be
Communal tension brewing for years led to the violent riots the year before Partition.
Partition 1947: The art of remembering
In our school textbooks, Partition was a minor detail in the climax of the rousing story of the Indian National Movement.
Partition 1947: Lessons we need to un/learn
Narratives from the peripheries are needed to balance out the indocentrism of Partition Studies
Partition 1947: The perennial shadow of communalism
Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon in this part of the world.
‘Tailor-Made’ Partition: Saga of an Orchestrated Disaster
In 1947, “United India” got vivisected, in which Bengal experienced the divide along with Punjab.
Partition 1947: The flow between two sides of a line
The reality of the communities that are yet to recover from the trauma of Partition.