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).”
Inside Nidhi Shah’s Mumbai house: White closet, mangrove views from balcony
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Nidhi Shah, famous for her role in Anupamaa, shared a glimpse of her Mumbai home on social media. The house is a perfect blend of vintage and modern styles, with Indian-inspired elements. The living room has a six-seater sofa, TV cabinet, and two balconies overlooking mangroves. The kitchen has a clay pot and a fridge decorated with magnets from Nidhi's travels.
