As independence approached, the main nationalist movement, Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru's Indian National Congress, wanted a ...

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan on Friday said the 1947 Partition did not merely redraw India's borders but also divided its thousand-year-old civilisation, and called upon ...

How does one remember one’s past – a past marked by bloodshed and the burning down of one’s ancestral home, violent riots and carnage during one of the largest forced migrations of the 20th century?

Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in 1947 with her young children, ...

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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Seventy years have passed since the partition of India and Pakistan. But its imprint on my life and how I think persists, taking different forms as time moves on. Strangely, I don’t think it bothered ...

India achieved freedom from British colonial yolk on August 15, 1947, however, the country paid a hefty price for independence as the British partitioned Bharat into two parts, India and Pakistan. The ...

More than 70 years ago today, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British colonial rulers into two nation-states – India and Pakistan. The Partition sparked three wars, paved the way for the ...

NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.