Of Promises, Permissions and Possible Lives in Main Wapas Aaunga – Jyoti Dalal
In Imtiaz Ali’s Main Waapis Aaunga, the promise to return finds its softer counterpart in the permission to leave. If…
Coming Out of Partition: Refugee Women Of Bengal by Gargi Chakravartty (2025): A Review by Dev Raj
British India’s partition in August 1947 led to the formation of two nation-states – India and Pakistan. On that day,…
The Individual, State and Conflict in Manto’s Toba Tek Singh – Archisha Rai
Toba Tek Singh is a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto in 1955. The story is set in the…
Partition Plight Through the Lens of Marvel Cinematic Universe – Ayushi Dutta
The Barbed Wires While the desire to wake up to an independent nation was high among the people, the great…
Memory in the Service of the Hindu Nation: The Afterlife of the Partition of India by Pranav Kohli (2023): A Review by Sana Shah
“What all will you remember, from where and till when?”, someone quipped, interrupting that lyrical slogan “everything will be remembered”,…
Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 by Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury (2022): A Review by Rana Abhyendra Singh
Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury’s Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 (published by…
Sylhet and the Partition: Understanding the Bengali Presence in North East India
Nabanipa Bhattacharjee is a Professor of Sociology at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She has been teaching in the…
Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora (2021) by Kavita Daiya: A Review by Aatina Nasir Malik
Graphic Migrations written by Kavita Daiya and published by Yoda Press, examines the 1947 Partition through the frame of the…