Partition Stories

The bulk of the Sindhis, poor peasants and petty traders had just walked across from Karachi, Thatta, Tharparkar, Umarkot and…

An Urdu speaker exhorted the Hindus to leave Sindh – “Yeh Mulk Hamara Hai, Hindu Chale Jao (This is our…

My grandfather, son of a Zamindar, was successful lawyer and a wealthy young man in Sindh. None of my family…

Partition was the Second Holocaust of World War II not caused by the Germans, but by the British Government in…

When the Muslim rioters plundered the property and wealth of Sikh community, they male Sikhs of village Thoha Khalsa resolved…

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75…

My parents are no longer there now, and I know that what they faced remained in their stories but still…

[The city’s southern limit extended beyond Lodhi Road, which was a forest land then. Colonies like Malviya Nagar, Lajpat Nagar,…

Junisha’s grandfather would often get confused at night and wake up forgetting where he was. One night he went to…

[On 75th year of Partition of Subcontinent, the Wire’s reporters and contributors bring stories of the period, of the traumas…