Stories of the Partition of India, based on the largest South-Asian oral history survey ever, now compiled in a book

Stories of the Partition of India, based on the largest South-Asian oral history survey ever, now compiled in a book

An oral history recording in progress | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The story of Amarjit Kour Itten is bookended by two photographs. In the first, she is a young woman in a Parsi gara sari wearing a filigree gold necklace and jhumkas, staring calmly into the future. The second is a studio portrait in Delhi […]

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Stories of the Partition of India, based on the largest South-Asian oral history survey ever, now compiled in a book

Stories of the Partition of India, based on the largest South-Asian oral history survey ever, now compiled in a book

An oral history recording in progress | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The story of Amarjit Kour Itten is bookended by two photographs. In the first, she is a young woman in a Parsi gara sari wearing a filigree gold necklace and jhumkas, staring calmly into the future. The second is a studio portrait in Delhi […]

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BJP wants to run the country on the basis of ‘Manusmriti’ : Subhashini Ali

BJP wants to run the country on the basis of ‘Manusmriti’ : Subhashini Ali

Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Subhashini Ali on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party government wanted to take India back to the times of caste-based society and run the country on the basis of “Manusmriti”, instead of the Constitution. She was addressing a gathering at her party’s “Jan Pratirodh Sabha” in Kamla […]

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