Partition
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Point of View
Imperial Exhaustion, Hasty Departure
Pakistan’s birth was actually forged through a complex interplay of post-WWII British imperial collapse, regional political dynamics, and inherited colonial…
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History
History: The Real Story of 1947
How Empire’s Collapse, Not Just Ideology, Carved South Asia The map of modern South Asia was forged on the anvil…
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Literature
Future Movement – Poetry from India
There could be no link between events, Yet one event is linked with another, link Independence with country’s partition, Rape…
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Blogs
Dreams of a Distant Homeland
For me, Thul town of Jacobabad, Sindh is a dot on a map and a collection of stories. For my…
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Partition Stories
A Gate that Rekindles Hemandas Memory
The Ceremonial Gate and the Day We Started Forgetting Hemandas Wadhwani On 14 August 1947, the Citizens’ Celebrations Committee had…
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Blogs
A visit to Gandhidham
Given my interest in Sindhi identity, I have always read about how Gandhidham became a key city for post partition…
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Short Story
Manjri: A Sindhi Short Story by Lekhraj Tulsiani
Manjri is a popular Sindhi short story by Lekhraj Tulsiani, translated into English by MU Malkani [Lekhraj Tulsiani was a…
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Partition Stories
Personal Price of Politics: Sindhis
Every family affected by the partition of India, to create the nation of Pakistan, in 1947, has grandparents with stories…
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Memoirs
Memoirs: What’s left behind…?
I am often asked if I had a hard life growing up. I think my life was very complicated and…
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Books & Authors
5 books on Partition highlight hope amidst conflict and the human cost of Independence
These five works of fiction by women authors are set against the backdrop of the Independence and Partition of India,…
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