India@70
-
When Gandhi told British birth control activists that contraceptives were a sin
-
Working on the BFI India archive meant several moments of ‘open-mouthed astonishment’
-
August 15 is a character in K Balachander’s ‘Achamillai Achamillai’
-
Partition love story: A Muslim woman finds love with a Sikh man, but there is no happy ending
-
Assam tea workers who hoisted tricolour bare-chested while shouting slogans booked for disrespect
-
‘An Evening in Lahore’: The Partition cannot breach a friendship in Navtej Singh’s short story
-
Memories of August 15, 1947, the tug of war of accession, and intrigue in Pakistan
-
‘Ganga Ram’: Pre-Partition memories live on in Pakistani writer Azra Waqar’s poignant story
-
Migration and gunfire are young poets’ material for writing about the Partition
-
‘Grass’: In Kulwant Singh Virk’s story, an abducted woman wants a family around her in a new country
-
Should she, shouldn’t she? A graphic story of crossing borders years after the Partition
-
‘The Undivided’: Waris Shah has been hanged 26 times but refuses to die in Ahmad Salim’s story
-
‘Inside INA’ is little more than an advert for Asia’s largest naval academy
-
There are more movies about Subhash Chandra Bose than ever before
-
How former Bangladeshis are learning to be Indians after the exchange of Partition enclaves
-
Confronting Partition: Why we should mark August 17 as the Day of Mourning
-
In charts: Six challenges India faced in 1947 – and how it has fared in battling them
-
A ‘war of independence’ that India forgot: Kukis rose up against the British in 1917
-
‘The Partitioned Land (After TS Eliot)’: A poem to recollect Kashmir and Independence
-
How have Indian novelists depicted Independence and the Partition? Here’s a sampler from their works
-
It’s fiction, not history, that reveals the real impact of the Partition on women
-
In photos: When Gandhi’s message was a mass movement, from Champaran to Bombay
-
Video: You don't need to be a lawyer to know these 10 rights
-
Much before the Partition, Prithviraj Kapoor was warning of its horrors in gut-wrenching plays
-
‘Partition was like living through the end of the world’: Pakistan’s leading poet Kishwar Naheed
-
As India turns 70, a sombre reminder of stolen freedoms
-
Video: How Assam became one of the first provinces to join the Union of India
-
Modi claims India achieved little in 60 years. These seven charts prove why he’s wrong
-
Did India start out as a better place than it is today? Seeking epiphanies in the Constitution
-
Why it is impossible to think of Urdu poetry without thinking of India’s journey to (and after) 1947
-
It’s time for another freedom struggle: A Midnight’s Child looks back on India’s 70-year journey
-
How some families’ material memories are re-creating the history of the Partition
-
When Amrita Pritam called out to Waris Shah in a heartrending ode while fleeing the Partition riots
-
Video: Has the definition of being Indian changed over the years?
-
In ‘Oru Indhiya Kanavu’, an Indian dream for incomplete justice
-
Why the Partition is not just a historical event but a work in progress for Gulzar
-
From freedom fighter to action hero, Mahatma Gandhi has had a busy pop culture afterlife
-
Beyond ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’, the film songs that dare to step out of line when things go off-key
-
The Ashis Nandy interview: ‘People didn’t have the moral sanction to kill even during the Partition’