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…
Elderly Partition survivors shared their experiences of loss and resilience at Punjabi University. PATIALA: Nearly eight decades after the Partition redrew the map of the subcontinent and uprooted millions, women who survived the violence of 1947 gathered at Punjabi University Patiala on Friday to revisit memories of loss, displacement and extraordinary resilience.Some of the survivors,…
The story of Bengali food is often told through rivers, fish and fertile soil. Less often it is told through railway platforms, refugee colonies and the ingenuity of people who arrived with almost nothing, except memory. When millions were displaced during the Partition of 1947, those crossing from East Bengal into West Bengal did not…
Syed Dildar Ali alias Munney Agha Raaz Ijtehadi, Maulana Kalbe Hussain, Maulana Kalbe Abid Majlis-e-Sham-e-Ghariban is difficult to translate without understanding the tragedy of Karbala in its entirety.Word ‘majlis’ is easily understood as a congregation or meeting of people and ‘sham’ is understandably an evening. Thus it is an evening of the Ghariban.The word ‘ghareeb’…
