Border Security Force personnel patrolling along the barbed wire fence at India-Pakistan border during Independence Day celebrations at RS Pura Sector in Jammu Kashmir on August 14, 2021. Credit - ...
Few events shaped Satish Gujral’s emotional and artistic life as deeply as the violence and displacement caused by the ...
Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...
Hosted on MSN
‘Shattered Lands’ review: The pain of partition
After finishing the ugly job assigned to him, Cyril Radcliffe burned all his papers, refused his handsome fee of 40,000 rupees and fled the subcontinent. He had just separated the new Muslim state of ...
NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.
Hosted on MSN
India and Pakistan have been in conflict since 1947 Partition. A look at its troubled legacy
India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled Kashmir last month.
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Listen 33:31 Listen to the Story ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
L to R: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten and Pandit Nehru discuss partition of India 1946 Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is to give the Get ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947. AP Photo/Max Desfor For both nations, independence almost immediately ...
A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results