Partition

How a VR project reconnects Indo-Pak partition survivors with their homes

Project Dastaan uses digital experiences to create a virtual homecoming for the survivors of the Subcontinent's bloody partition in 1947.

In India’s anti-colonial struggle, Hindu nationalists were anti-national

Hindu nationalists like to cast themselves as patriots that put the country first. Their history of non-participation during the independence movement suggests that they were anything but patriots in India’s battle for freedom.

73 years on, violence is reimagined in Modi's India

Seven decades later, the memory of partition violence is being replayed in the minds of Indian Muslims, the country's largest minority, opening the ‘settled’ questions of belonging and unbelonging.

Jinnah was right. But Pakistan has a long way to go

August 14 marks the 73rd year of Pakistan's founding. It seems as if history has completed a full circle: the country is finally discovering the secular roots of its origin, as articulated by its founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

What does a temple tell us about Pakistan’s vision of nationhood?

As Pakistan celebrates 73 years of independence from British colonial rule, a seemingly minor dispute regarding the construction of a Hindu temple is asking thorny questions about what the nation’s raison d'etre truly is.

Serbia-Kosovo land swap deal looms large over Bosnian elections

The results of the election could have major repercussions for secessionist movements that threaten to tear Balkan borders apart.

2017 Year in Review: Europe's secessionist movements

Europe has been shaken by new political crises this year, with Catalan independence movement and Brexit raising fears that recent events may embolden separatists elsewhere on the continent.

The ‘Myth of Partition’ and the unmaking of war

Was it India that was divided during Partition?