Postcards: India Partition – after 75 years, tech opens a window into the past
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Facebook, YouTube and VR are helping people in India and Pakistan connect, despite the bloodshed of independence in 1947…
Lifestory: “My dream came true” – Indian woman to revisit Pakistan home after 75 years
As India and Pakistan prepare to mark 75 years since the Partition of 1947, MUBASHER BUKHARI, of Reuters, reports on how 90-year old Indian citizen Reena Varma has been able to return to her childhood home in Pakistan…
Building bridges: The Jesuit priest linking Indians and Pakistanis as unlikely pen pals
PRIYADARSHINI SEN, in an article published on Religion Unplugged, reports on the efforts of 80-year-old Jesuit priest Joseph Kalathil to build bridges between India and Pakistan…
Essay: Bangladesh at 50 – A nation created in violence and still bearing scars of a troubled birth
As Bangladesh approaches the 50th anniversary of its creation, conflict scholar TAZREENA SAIJAD, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the troubled lead-up to independence and the impact that has on the nation today…
India grants land ownership rights to refugees who fled Pakistan 70 years ago
Thomson Reuters Foundation Refugees in India’s western state of Maharashtra have been granted land ownership rights 70 years after fleeing what is now Pakistan, when the countries were violently partitioned at independence, officials said. The move is part of a wider push to give more rights to certain refugee groups in different parts of India. […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘VICEROY’S HOUSE’, THE TRAGIC STORY BEHIND THE CREATION OF MODERN INDIA AND PAKISTAN
DAVID ADAMS watches the period drama Viceroy’s House, set amid the tumultuous partition of India and Pakistan…