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RADCLIFFE LINE 1947
79 years ago, a man who had never visited India & knew little about its complex landscape drew a line that divided India and PakistanRadcliffe Line 1947: In 1947, British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe chaired the boundary commissions that demarcated the Radcliffe Line, divid...- Watch the fragile corridor: Bangladesh's fluid political landscape necessitates vigilance in the Chicken’s NeckSir Cyril Radcliffe's hasty partition of India created the Siliguri Corridor, a vital but narrow land bridge connecting India to its northe...
- When a ‘neutral umpire’ almost gave Lahore to India15th August India Independence Day: Partition of India was an expedited process that resulted in significant turmoil. Lord Mountbatten had ...
- Bangladesh unrest: When homelands are near & yet so farThe recent political upheaval in Bangladesh, marked by the ousting of Sheikh Hasina's government and the instatement of Nobel laureate Muha...
- Independence Day: How India & Pakistan divided money, assets, a buggy and a tromboneIndia and Pakistan were divided 76 years ago, but there remain outstanding financial claims between the two nations due to asset division. ...
- India has established mechanism to resolve ‘friction' on Indo-China border: Lt General Rana Pratap KalitaTo a question about the past disputes between the two countries on the Sino-Indian border issue along Arunachal Pradesh, the senior army of...
- Assam wants reopening of old railway links with BangladeshAssam government discusses reopening of traditional railway links to Bangladesh which will reopen the pre-partition railway links from Chit...
- Gurdaspur terror attack was small-scale but it exposed serious chinks in India's armourAs intelligence agencies and security forces race round the clock to prevent and prevail upon terrorists, goalposts are constantly shifting.
- Jinnah as victim of intolerance? That turns history on its headThe anti-Jinnah clamour would have soon petered out. What fanned the outcry was the perceived intellectual duplicity in presenting Jinnah i...
- Dissing the Congress: What PM Modi’s trenchant lessons in history can teach usThe object used by Modi to slingshot out of a perceived precarious position was the Congress. And the gravitational force used was history.
- How Partition's grandchildren on both sides of the border are collecting memorabiliaOne of the first recordings of Partition’s oral histories was by 1947 Partition Archive, founded by Guneeta Singh Bhalla, then a research p...
- Why India stands a better chance with Bangladesh over its other neighboursThis week Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sign a pact in Dhaka with his counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, that erases a dispute as old as Kashm...
- Strong will from PM needed to resolve India-Bangladesh issuesIndia needs to show more will and magnanimity to resolve the outstanding issues in all its matters with Bangladesh so as to reassert itself.
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