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- India
What have I done: Jinnah’s reported reaction to Partition
New Delhi: As Partition tore through the subcontinent in 1947, millions were forced to flee across a newly drawn border amid communal violence, killings and looting, and it was against this backdrop…
- Featured News
Main Vaapas Ayunga feels like Mumbai rains on a parched landscape
My daughters warned that the film has too much violence. But perhaps they are yet to know how a journalist’s mind works. Fulfilling a curiosity is the karma of my tribe. Since…
- India
Bhagwat: Post-partition arrivals were ‘Warriors,’ not refugees
Nagpur: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday, July 1, said after the 1947 Partition, the people who came to India were not refugees, but “warriors of struggle ” who endured significant hardships…
- India
Partition result of ‘population imbalance’: RSS leader Sunil Ambekar
Indore: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Sunil Ambekar on Sunday said the 1947 Partition of India resulted from a “population imbalance” and stressed the need to address such concerns. He made the remarks…
- Featured News
Rethinking Partition: Who among Jinnah and Nehru was more responsible?
Hyderabad: As India marked another Republic Day recently, it is worth revisiting the events that led to its birth in 1947 – and the accompanying trauma of Partition. The division of the subcontinent…
- India
‘Tomorrow Sindh may return to India’: Rajnath Singh
New Delhi: Recalling BJP patriarch L K Advani’s words on Sindh’s civilisational connect with India despite the Partition, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said “borders can change” and “tomorrow Sindh may…
- Opinions
Release of Rakhshanda Jalil’s book ‘Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?’
Partition brought in its wake quite a few myths. One that religion can be the basis of Nationhood, crystallized by Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League in the form of Two-Nation Theory. Two…
- Hyderabad
India’s partition a ‘historical mistake’, says Asaduddin Owaisi
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday, October 16, said the partition of India should never have happened and called it a ‘historical mistake.’ Addressing a press conference, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP…
- Politics
Sharad Pawar raises concern over CBSE circular to schools on Partition
Pune: It would be incorrect to pass on the thoughts of strife that erupted during Partition onto the younger generation with respect to national and social unity, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad…
- India
BJP to take out silent march to recount Partition horrors
Lucknow: The BJP will take out a silent procession ‘Vibhishika Smriti Diwas’ in Uttar Pradesh on Monday to remember all those who lost their lives during Partition. The party will organise seminars…
