Indian foreign policy tends to take a rose-tinted view of what happened in 1971, but the new (ie, post-2024) Bangladesh wants to put that behind it and de-emphasise India’s role in that liberation ...

The famous muslim religious scholar of that time, Maulana Maududi, told Jinnah that if you are going to create an Islamic state, then we can go with you, to which Muhammad Ali Jinnah, instead of ...

And the other, a sweetmeat called sohan halwa, the spelling more commonly used today. However, I will refer to it as halwa-i sūhan or sūhan halwa for the reason that will become apparent shortly. A ...

For seven decades, Pakistan has repeatedly offered itself as America's strategic pawn, only to be discarded when no longer ...

As it circulates through the digital universe in 2026 while resonating with Gen Z, Noor Jehan’s 1952 song, Neher wale pul, ...

NEW YORK, NY – This summer, Penguin Classics will take us back to the turbulent beginnings of Partition with two powerful novels that offer intimate, fictional accounts of the period. Both Tamas by ...

Set in post-Partition Agra, M.S. Sathyu’s Garm Hava stands as a landmark of Indian parallel cinema. It follows Salim Mirza ...

I once travelled to Pakistan for attending a conference. At the time, memories of the Kargil conflict of 1999 and the ...

For seven decades, American diplomats danced around Kashmir with the precision of tightrope walkers, carefully avoiding any gesture that might suggest the United States had chosen sides in South ...

On Ritwik Ghatak's 50th death anniversary, here's remembering the visionary filmmaker through the site-specific installation ...

This map shows the entire Jammu and Kashmir region, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Aksai Chin as parts of India. (Image: X/@USTradeRep) New Delhi: India and the US announced the framework of ...

For its brightest, most unflinching moments, Ritu Menon’s collection is a worthy and often profound companion to the ...