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Blast from the past: Unseen picture of Congress delegates, including Jawaharlal Nehru, voting in favour of the partition of India goes viral on the...

OpIndia Staff -
The picture is from Delhi Congress session on 14t June 1947, during which the resolution for India's partition was passed by Nehru & others
Political History of India

Tracing the events that led to Direct Action Day and genocide: From the late 19th Century to the Partition of Bengal, and beyond

K Bhattacharjee -
75 years have passed since Direct Action Day but still, a day does not go by when it does not impact current events.
Political History of India

Liberals accuse PM Modi of ‘polarising’ Independence Day by remembering horrors of partition: Here’s why they are so angry

K Bhattacharjee -
Narendra Modi announced on Friday that the 14th of August, henceforth, shall be recognized as 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day'.
News Reports

#PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay: After decades, PM Modi finally institutionalises conversation around partition horrors on Pakistan Independence Day

OpIndia Staff -
Today, PM Narendra Modi ended that silence by institutionalising the conversation around the partition by announcing 14th August to be observed as #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay.
News Reports

MDH Masala owner Mahashay Dharampal Gulati passes away at 97

OpIndia Staff -
Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, the owner of the spices brand 'MDH' passed away on Thursday morning following a cardiac arrest.
News Reports

Separated from her family, kidnapped, converted to Islam and sold for an Ox: Story of Daphia who finally found her family in India

OpIndia Staff -
An old woman in Pakistan who was separated from her family during the partition, was abducted and converted to Islam, has finally united with her family in India over a phone call.
Specials

Seventy years after Jogendra Nath Mandal decided to return from Pakistan over atrocities on Hindus, his prophecies have come true

OpIndia Staff -
Jogendra Nath Mandal was appointed as a minister in the first Pakistan govt, but later he had returned to India
Political History of India

Operation Polo: When India annexed Hyderabad from the Nizam and Razakars, the suppression of Hindus and the role of Nehru

Nivan -
On the midnight of August 15th 1947, India gained its independence from the British and was partitioned into two countries- Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan
News Reports

Price of freedom: How Beant Singh, now a rickshaw puller in Meerut, witnessed his mother and brother burn during partition in Rawalpindi

OpIndia Staff -
Beant Singh is one of the few survivors of partition that witnessed 2 million casualties and the displacement of 14 million people.
Opinions

Muslims chose to stay back in India: An analysis of the mythical, unsubstantiated trope that is used to make Hindus feel guilty

Nupur J Sharma -
Muslims who stayed back in India after the partition, did not primarily do so out of their innate love for mother India
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