Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard her grandmother describe how she crossed into newly-independent India from Pakistan in 1947 with her young children, ...

Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded coach railway train near New Delhi, trying to leave India after the 1947 Partition. AP Photo Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when ...

Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that ...

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...

A riveting conversation on Gandhi, Savarkar and Jinnah at JLF 2026 reveals how personal relationships, ideological clashes ...

Warning: I’m about to go all math and science on yo’ ass.Have you ever heard the phrase “butterfly effect”?It’s the popular name for the chaos-theory notion of sensitive dependence.The phrase comes ...

India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled Kashmir last month.

Lord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim leaders in the summer of 1947. AP Photo/Max Desfor For both nations, independence almost immediately ...

For a long time, the generation that bore the brunt of the violent and acrimonious partition of India – centered on the two provinces that were actually divided, Bengal in the east and Punjab in the ...

Pakistani high school student Noman Afzal knows "traitorous" Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that erupted when British India split into two nations 70 years ago. His history textbook tells him ...