Vidya Bhushan Soni was Indian ambassador to Senegal, Jamaica, Fiji and Ukraine, but this memoir deals with his ancestral ties with New Delhi from the time the British Raj decided in 1911 to construct a new Indian capital.
Every coin has two sides, and so do partitions. While the birth of new nation-states is celebrated, the human cost is often forgotten.
‘You can never go home again.’ I do not feel at home anywhere, but the idea of home follows me wherever I go.” These are the words of Zarina Hashmi, who is known professionally as Zarina.
Inter-University Accelerator Centre(IUAC) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) jointly organised the Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Divas to recall the struggles…
The Balfour Report was prepared by the Committee on Inter-Imperial Relations at the Imperial Conference held in London in 1926.
Chandraprakash Dwivedi said that movies made on the subject of 'partition' evokes response but it should be a constant effort in that direction.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The real intent of PM to mark August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day is to use the most traumatic historical events as fodder for his current political battles.”
PM had last year announced that August 14 will be observed as 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day' to remind the nation of the sufferings and sacrifices of Indians during the partition in 1947.
The day is being observed to give a fitting tribute to all those who lost their lives and were displaced in one of the most horrific tragedies in human history.
Bengal, the biggest province of the country before partition lost its preeminence in truncated India after independence, due to its much reduced population.
