Set against the backdrop of the Second World War (1939-45), the novel details how the British Empire mobilised Indian soldiers for its wars, treating them as expendable manpower.
Far from depicting Partition as a mere historical event, Ghatak examined its ongoing, everyday effects through stories of uprooted families, dispossessed women, and lost childhoods, using melodrama not for escapism but as a radical reflection of social wounds
The Blue Potter is Ajeet Cour’s lyrical remembrance of artists and visionaries, blending memory, art, politics, and empathy to show how living itself becomes a crafted, enduring art.
From cutting wood in jungles to selling groundnuts and seeing his mother work as a domestic help, Verma, the boy from Mianwali’s Mohalla Gaushala has lived to tell the tale
Born on April 20, 1925 (his military records made him two years younger), in Gujranwala, undivided Punjab, Choudhary had been studying engineering in Delhi when riots swept through Punjab.
After a week of hunger, thirst, and fear, they crossed into Indian territory via Ferozepur. But there was no warm welcome. “People looked at us like we were aliens,” she recalls. “They called us bahrle (outsiders).”
Today, as a father of five sons and one daughter, Harjai oversees three electroplating factories. But the memories of Partition — and of the friend who stood guard through the longest night of his family’s life — remain vivid.
Iran mission uses donations to buy 40 tonnes of medicine, unable to send them home
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A 40-tonne shipment of medicines bought by the Iranian embassy in India is stranded in New Delhi due to a damaged aircraft. The embassy is seeking alternative ways to deliver the urgently needed medicines, as pharmaceutical companies in Iran are under attack.
