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Gedu Mian and the Partition of Tripura

Since Partition, Tripura has been cut off from ‘mainland India’ and today it feels like a remote backwater. But it...

The Question of Sylhet and The Assamese-Bengali Divide

This chapter focuses on the Referendum in the Bengali-speaking district of Sylhet and how the Assamese-Bengali animosity in post-Partition Assam...

Midnight’s Borders

Borders and border-making – and the redrawing of borders, often by force of arms – are the material of much...

The Art of Remembering

Affected by the work of the German artist, Gunter Demnig (b. 1947), who initiated the Stolpersteine project on a quest...

Editorial | Issue 05

When Partition finally arrived, and with callous suddenness, in 1947, the rages it unleashed sent millions of hapless refugees carrying...

The Red Line: Where is the Border?