Before it was an edict, and a death sentence, it was a rumor. To many, it must have seemed improbable; I imagine my grandmother, buying her vegetables at the market, settling her baby on her hip, ...

NEW DELHI — First comes the melancholy twang of a South Asian sitar, plucking a ballad about nostalgia for childhood. Then the name of a faraway yet familiar place appears on a black screen, in Hindi.

Veera Hiranandani’s “Amil and the After” and Saadia Faruqi’s “The Partition Project” show that the rending of the subcontinent is as relevant and heartbreaking as ever. By Pooja Makhijani Pooja ...

This Partition memoir gives well-trod tropes a granular reality. It captures the sense of displacement and recurrent ...

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors. People ...

You are a writer, a youth advocate and a social worker. Tell us, at such a tender age, how did you develop such deep and meaningful inclinations towards writing, advocacy and social work? For me these ...