India’s partition

The Survivors

Chittajit Mitra

Thirty stories that capture the essence of Punjabiyat

Critical Mass of Urdu Speakers

Urdu’s importance has been declining steadily since a mass of Urdu speakers and writers migrated to Pakistan from northern India and the erstwhile Hyderabad state after Partition

Tricoloured Memories

Vineetha Mokkil

Oral histories that conjure up the varied experiences of 1947

Entwined Lives

Urvashi Bahuguna

Amit Majmudar’s new book fictionalises a comparative study of Gandhi and Jinnah

Was There Ever a Golden Age?

Geeta Doctor

An era when Hindus and Muslims shared a bond

How Jinnah Divided Muslims

MJ Akbar

An error and a tragedy

In Search of the Real Savarkar

Vikram Sampath

The place of Muslims in his Hindu Rashtra

The Great Betrayal

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

We did not abandon the Congress, they abandoned us

Distance Is Destiny

Nikita Doval

A passage to home

The Legacy of Jinnah

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The argument that had he lived longer, Pakistan would have evolved into a proper democracy is pure sophistry

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India’s partition

The Survivors

Critical Mass of Urdu Speakers

Tricoloured Memories

Entwined Lives

Was There Ever a Golden Age?

How Jinnah Divided Muslims

In Search of the Real Savarkar

The Great Betrayal

Distance Is Destiny

The Legacy of Jinnah

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