“Partition is an important but overlooked chapter of world history, especially in South Asia, a region from where many of our ...

At the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters 2026, a dialogue between MP Dr Shashi Tharoor and Pulitzer Prize–winning ...

As British rule in Asia ended, the emergence of new borders and ethnic enclaves dispossessed millions.

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 ...

British rule over the Indian subcontinent ended in 1947, resulting in the birth of an independent India and the new nation of Pakistan. The Indian state was secular and had a Hindu majority. Pakistan, ...

When you get into discussions about the Middle East with certain people, you start hearing that the great mistake was the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. If ...

The British government’s partition of India in August 1947 was a supremely bungled event: undertaken at high speed and with apparently zero foresight. Speaking to journalists about the possibility of ...

As fans of the Disney+ series “Ms. Marvel” wait to hear whether there will be a second season, Sahar Arshad is ready to watch the first season again — this time with her grandmother. The show about a ...