In the dark brilliance of Indian writer Sadaat Hasan Manto’s partition stories, one can glimpse the madness that was the year 1947. Take the story “The Assignment” in which a retired Muslim judge’s ...

With Imtiaz Ali's film slowly gaining momentum, more people have begun sharing stories of their ancestors and the lived ...

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I glimpsed the other side of India’s Independence, in startling images, through a book I read last week—Meenakshie Verma’s Aftermath: An Oral History of Violence. Published in 2004, the most ...