A 95-year-old man recalls his Muslim-majority village, Mehas, before the Partition violence. PATIALA: In the courtyard of his home in Mehas village near Nabha, 95-year-old Bant Ram narrates a story that has stayed with him for nearly eight decades — of a Muslim-majority village once known as Mahesh Nagar, of childhood friends he never saw…
New Delhi: Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan on Friday said “no caste, language or region is more important than the nation” and urged Indians to place their national identity above “narrower identities”.Radhakrishnan was addressing a Partition Horrors Remembrance Day event organised by Delhi University’s Centre for Independence and Partition Studies and Indian Council of Historical Research….
Shillong: Meghalaya observed Partition Horrors Remembrance Day on Friday, recalling the human cost of India’s 1947 division.At the event at Lok Bhavan, governor CH Vijayashankar highlighted Partition’s lasting impact.Synod College assistant professor David Arnold Kharchandy said Partition was not merely a political development marking the end of British rule and the creation of India and…
The Man Behind The Radcliffe LineAs Sunny Deol’s Batwara 1947 revisits the upheaval of India’s Partition, the story of the man associated with the new borders is worth remembering. Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British barrister who had never previously visited India, was appointed chairman of two Boundary Commissions in 1947. The commissions were tasked with…
