The other partition Danyal
THE Partition lives strong in public imagination. It triggered mass migrations; millions died and even more were displaced. Generations of South Asian writers have since revisited its horrors, allowing us,…
Partition short-changed the poor
BEFORE the advent of free-market policies of 1991, the battle cry of India’s masses fighting poverty and unemployment targeted the big business. “Ye Tata-Birla ki sarkar nahi chalegi, nahi chalegi.”…
An unclean partition
The British have a lot to answer for; a lot to explain, perhaps a lot to regret, if they choose to regret what happened due to British actions in the…
Lessons from partition
August 2019 is not only the 73rd anniversary of Pakistan and India’s independence from the British Raj, but also marks the 73rd anniversary of the painful events which followed the…
A window on Partition
On the eve of this landmark day of Independence, there is a growing sense of disarray in the political domain. Against the backdrop of ritualistic ceremonies, our thoughts are focused…
Partition and the ‘other’ Sindhi
The partition of the Subcontinent is still painful for millions across the border. They still remember the loss of homes and places they were born and lived in. Millions suffered…
Partition and the Two-Nation Theory
The Subcontinent – an infinite multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-racial and multi-class mass of plurality and a cauldron of immense contradictions – was partitioned in an extremely hasty, thoughtless, deceitful, expeditious and…
Partitions past and present
It has been called one of the “greatest convulsions in human history”. With millions on the move and hundreds of thousands killed (the official British figure stands at 200,000 but…
What a partition
Of the two famous Ludhianvis, Sahir Ludhianvi and Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, it had to be our luck to get not Sahir the poet who wrote those immortal film songs…
Partition and liberation
Last week, while Pakistan was enveloped in its own disasters, another region of the world long wracked by war saw a development few could have predicted a decade ago. On…
