Railways are a fast track to the soul of India

The novelist and artist Amitava Kumar folds a sensitive narrative into the 142 pages of The Social Life of Indian Trains: A ...
Yahoo

Overcrowded trains serve as metaphor for India in Western eyes – but they are a relic of colonialism and capitalism

A devastating rail crash that left almost 300 people dead has refocused international attention on the importance of railways in the lives of Indians. Indeed, to many Western observers, images of men ...
Salon

5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath

Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had ...
Time

The Lingering Shadow of India’s Painful Partition

Border Security Force personnel patrolling along the barbed wire fence at India-Pakistan border during Independence Day celebrations at RS Pura Sector in Jammu Kashmir on August 14, 2021. Border ...
The Conversation

Five myths about the partition of British India – and what really happened

Navtej K Purewal receives funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Eleanor Newbigin receives funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Anniversaries ...
The Conversation

Wounded souls: 75 years after India’s Partition, survivors’ trauma has still not been recognized

Sanjeev Jain received funding from Wellcome Trust 'Turning the Pages' (096493/Z/11/Z). Prof. Sanjeev Jain DPM,MD Department of Psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, New ...
The New York Times

Survivors of Partition Seek Closure Through an Unlikely Source: YouTube

The YouTube channel Punjabi Lehar, based in Pakistan, has reunited people who were separated by the partition of India in 1947. By Salman Masood and Mike Ives FAISALABAD, Pakistan — Nasir Dhillon, a ...