As a historian, I know only too well that in capturing a place, a time, a mood or a people, humdrum works of history come a poor second to works of the imagination. No non-fictional book about India’s ...

Musicians Amira Gill (25) from Delhi and Seattle-based Vasundhara Gupta (27) are voicing the verses that build a haunting narrative of Partition. Their composition, the eponymous rendition of ...

Sarita Jenamani, an Indian poet writing in English and Odiya, and Aftab Husain, an eminent Urdu poet from Pakistan, living and working in Vienna, have brought out an anthology of Punjabi poetry with a ...

The Partition was a singularly traumatic experience in the subcontinent, both politically and emotionally, for people of all faiths and social standing. From poets to politicians – great thinkers on ...

New Delhi, Mar 24 (PTI) Did Cyril Radcliffe regret the line that he drew to divide India and Pakistan in 1947 and did he ever read W H Auden’s scathing poem about his role in the Partition? These ...

Jaipur: Eminent lyricist, writer and film director Gulzar attributed pain and profound emotions in his writing and poetry to poignant experiences he endured as a nine-year-old child during the ...

In a recent activity conducted with primary school students, the words “freedom” and “independence” elicited some hilarious responses. A teacher friend wrote in to say that unsuspecting five and ...

Borders and Broken Hearts features the poetry of Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla translated into Sindhi, presented in both the Devnagari and the Perso-Arabic scripts. The poet and her translators Rekha ...

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When I first read it, I wanted to rip out the pages from Fatimah Asghar’s book of poems If They Come for Us and circulate them all around. The table format of the poem From, for instance, asks the ...