Radcliffe’s Line cleaved not just a country into two, but also several businesses, which had to quickly adapt to serve a young country beset by shortages
The legacy of our first prime minister — the hewing of a certain kind of Indianness — is fundamentally challenged today
Whose Bhagat Singh is he anyway?
Both the right-wing and Sikh extremists are attempting to appropriate the legacy of the revolutionary who stood for everything that is antithetical to their beliefs
A pop-up museum at the Godrej Culture Lab, Mumbai, explored the social and emotional narrative of the Partition
In this excerpt from a book of writings by and on her, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay shares how her internal conflicts as a woman in India attracted her to Gandhi’s satyagraha
A selection of picture postcards — from Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj — capture the many moods and nuances of a country under a foreign yoke, in the years leading to Independence
To celebrate 70 years of Independence, a quiz on the wonder that is India
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