Articles with tag: partition
An Ode Called Amritsar
ammara ahmad Jul 14, 2008 interacts: 141
On hearing that I was about to visit her ancestral city, my mother gave me instructions to reach her childhood home from the railway station...
Communists and the Making of Pakistan
Yasser Latif Hamdani Oct 7, 2007 interacts: 117History of the last years of Punjab under the Raj
Farewell to Shimla
Nasim Hassan Sep 23, 2007 interacts: 384Life was normal in early 1947 till June when sporadic incidents of ethnic violence began. In July of 1947, the Muslims started leaving Shimla for Pakistan.
Pakistan Quarters
Muhammad Tariq Mar 4, 2007 interacts: 24The name probably symbolized the fact that it gave shelter to the families of most of the government servants, keeping the administration of the newly formed nation running, Karachi being the capital then.
Out of Sight
Sajjad Ahmed Jan 11, 2007 interacts: 4It was a fine morning of March 1963. Humayun was engrossed working in his office situated in Reagal. He was a successful businessman – a well known social-climber with all the success the previous sixteen years had given him.
Indian Muslims
Aparna Pande Nov 7, 2006 interacts: 476The Sachhar Committee report, to be released in end-November, states that the condition of the majority of Indian Muslims is worse than that of even the Dalits. It recommends, among other measures, an allocation of 15% of all government funds for schemes
From Kerala to Islamabad (A Journey of Nine Decades)
Muhammad Tariq Jul 31, 2006 interacts: 42Memories of a life which they can only recount to their children with the hope that they will keep alive traditions they brought with them, but which are now dying away slowly
Nostalgia, Inc.
Zia Ahmed Nov 10, 2005 interacts: 6Jaipur: where thakurs can get you bumped off for a variety of reasons.
From Patna to Detroit (A true lifelong migration)
syed muzammil Oct 6, 2005 interacts: 95The night of 20th August 1947, which witnessed violent flames holding her family until they resolved into ashes. Her baba, amma, bhayya, apya, were burnt alive in her city of innocent smiles, Patna.
South Asia’s Clarence Darrow
Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 13, 2005 interacts: 266An anglicized barrister who ended up founding a separate Muslim majority state is an apparent paradox but not really so...
Doves
sameena khan Jul 14, 2005 interacts: 25While writing to his old friend Fazal Din, Lobh Singh remembered that even in those days he (Fazal Din) used to correct him: 'You teach Urdu, Lobhe. Don’t you even know how to spell welfare?'
Who Created Pakistan?
Ranjit Hira Jun 26, 2005 interacts: 265In 1947, India was not expected to survive as a nation
Cold Flesh
Godot Jun 17, 2005 interacts: 54Eesher Singh looked at Kalwant Kaur but unable to bear the heat of her piercing eyes, looked the other way.
Talking to Sabiha Sumar about Khamosh Pani
Anil S Arora Feb 23, 2005 interacts: 11Anil Saari Arora talked to Sabiha Sumar at New Delhi, where the Pakistani filmmaker and her husband, producer S. Sathanandan, have presently set up base.
My Family Reunion
Dost Mittar Nov 12, 2004 interacts: 58My mother handed over both me and her gold ornaments to her sister. The arrangement was that if my mother made it safely across to India, she would take back both me and her gold, if not, my maasi was to use the gold to help her raise me.
The New Beginning
Mohammad Gill Nov 1, 2004 interacts: 37My story is the story of many thousands of other people on both sides of the line. I regard myself lucky in one way that my family and I didn’t suffer any loss of limb....
When the Orient met the Ox-ident
Nadeem Paracha Oct 11, 2004 interacts: 21“Where are you going, sister?' asked Duby, a stray cat stuck inside a bogy of a train carrying people and merchandise from Pakistan to Amritsar. This particular bogy had a cow (an aged Bhagi), two horses (Timmy and Boby) and a mouse, Micky.
Does Wagah Have to be This? Or Could it be...
jitesh malik Aug 15, 2004 interacts: 16Why then it denies and overwrites the expectations and imaginations of people with a well-synchronized ritual of hatred?
Khamosh Pani Breaks a Long Silence
Ras Siddiqui May 5, 2004 interacts: 46“Khamosh Pani” (Silent Waters) is a unique Punjabi movie that is slowly making ripples in the cinematic world.
In Search of Birth Places
Nazar Khan Mar 8, 2004 interacts: 90He had left it when he was only one year old. Sure enough, as we make the final mountain turn, there is Kusik on the hilltop, visible from miles. The locals talk of it as Devi ka Mandar or Kusik fort. A 50-60-house village is located next to
Oh Myopia, Thy Name is Pakistan
Iqbal Mustafa Feb 3, 2004 interacts: 108Wisdom is the ability to achieve desired results in the long run; foolishness is the propensity to grab the immediate opportunity today and harm oneself tomorrow. Enlightened self-interest is not as dazzling as street-smart wizardry but it prevails in the
Jaipur Dreams
Zia Ahmed Oct 27, 2003 interacts: 158If my father was an Indian until the sixties, what does that make me?
Muslim League’s Politics (1937-1947)
Yasser Latif Hamdani Sep 7, 2003 interacts: 258League’s transformation from a Nationalist party to a Separatist Party. Author's note: I want this to be first in a series of articles by Pakistanis and Indians to unemotionally reconsider the events of that very important decade in our history whic
Transfer of Power from the British Raj & The South Asian Politicians
Nazar Khan Aug 16, 2003 interacts: 139While the common man went about his routine daily chores, the future of South Asia lay in the hands of the politicians of the Congress and the Muslim league.
On the Assertion of Rights
Rafay Alam May 9, 2003 interacts: 17Why Pakistan’s institutions are ass backwards
Towards Greater Tolerance
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jan 30, 2003 interacts: 281Anti-Pakistanism and neo-Indian Nationalism
A Work In Progress
Feroz R Khan Jan 6, 2003 interacts: 95Jinnah put Pakistan in such a location that the future state would always be involved in the geo-politics of world
Games Generals Play
Nafees Ghaznavi Nov 24, 2002 interacts: 71the General deserves to be applauded for forcing a semblance of democracy to the working of political parties
Lessons from Constitutional History
Jawaid Siddiqi Oct 30, 2002 interacts: 54But we never seem to learn from history
What I Saw In Okara
Pervez Hoodbhoy Sep 15, 2002 interacts: 68An investigation into the Okara land dispute
Road Blocks in Normalising Relations
Bundchungal Sep 8, 2002 interacts: 55If cross border terrorism ceases, facilitating a dialogue between India and Pakistan, will a dividend of long term peace follow?
Why Are We Killing Ourselves?
Anas Malik Mar 2, 2002 interacts: 176What mentality burns a human being alive?
The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond
Revathy Gopal Jan 26, 2002 interacts: 555Osama bin Laden has his own vision of a perfect world and millions will die
Running Naked
Anwar Iqbal Dec 25, 2001 interacts: 359Looking at the current India, Pakistan conflict as Manto would have
Love On The Line Of Control, a Story by Col Dharam Pal
Rahul Ghosh Sep 23, 2001 interacts: 103There seems to be a lot of acrimony and bad-blood between some Indian and Pakistani contributors ...
The Indo-Pak Summit, Kashmir and the Taj Mahal
Ras Siddiqui Jul 8, 2001 interacts: 142One cannot expect a solution from just one summit on the complex Kashmir problem ...
Mocking the Frontier: The Baba’s Dargah and Chamaliyal
Yoginder Sikand May 28, 2001 interacts: 152What would the Baba have to say ...
Democracy in Pakistan: The Missing Link?
Bilal Ahmad Dec 14, 2000 interacts: 626Democracy has long been a buzzword in Pakistan
Elections, Pakistani Style
Zeejah Nov 7, 2000 interacts: 48One moment we were leading, the next we fell behind
A Different Story
Feroz R Khan Oct 27, 2000 interacts: 291The winds of change are slowly whispering their way across the South Asian sub-continent
What’s the future of India and Pakistan?
Roopam Dhawan Jun 5, 2000 interacts: 270there are only two solutions to this problem[Kashmir]. A Change of attitude or war
Looking for Razia
Uma Krishnaswami Jun 2, 2000 interacts: 27Razia (Zafar) Chaudhury, are you out there?
TIEcon 2000 Generates Hope
Ras Siddiqui May 18, 2000 interacts: 14Entrepreneurship in the 21st. Century
Save India
Veer Kumar Jul 27, 1999 interacts: 52A martial law administration has to take over the country
Straight From the Heart: Dushman Kaun?
Temporal Jul 9, 1999 interacts: 24Moderates of our world unite. Silent majority speak up
India’s Failure of Imagination
Rohan Oberoi Jul 2, 1999 interacts: 62No one in India, it seems, has a clue what people across the border in Pakistan are thinking
A Visit to Pakistan
Vinod Vyasulu Jun 24, 1999 interacts: 22Could it be that there is a feeling that India does not accept the existence of Pakistan?
Balkan Tragedy: A Re-enactment of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh
Jamal Hasan Apr 7, 1999 interacts: 346The escalating human tragedy in Kosovo gives me a sense of deja vu
An Interview with Deepa Mehta
Rehan Ansari Jan 26, 1999 interacts: 8Of partition, hybrid filmmaking and the lack of inhibitions
An Interview with Naseeruddin Shah
Rehan Ansari Jan 12, 1999 interacts: 663 pages of Manto tells you what you want to know [about Partition]
A Line Runs Through It
Feroz R Khan Jan 1, 1999 interacts: 68Siachen-Kargil: India, Pakistan, Kashmir and forgotton lessons of history
Talking of Talks
Udayakumar Oct 22, 1998 interacts: 9...the Prime Ministers have had a telephone talk
Pakistan Cinema 1947-1997: A Review
Rehan Ansari Oct 7, 1998 interacts: 11Gazdar gives a first rate literary analysis of Maula Jat against the backdrop of Zia’s Martial Law
