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Faroagh ul Islam mom kī tarah jalte rahe ham shahīdoñ ke tan rāt-bhar jhilmilātī rahī sham-e-sub.h-e-vatan Makhdoom Mohiuddin’s Chaand taaro’n ka bann is a pithy description of our historic struggle against the British Raj. The battle of Plassey, fought in…
Chandan Kumar Divided subcontinent attained independence from the British colonial regime on the eve of 15th August 1947. Several ideological differences led to the creation of two new countries with similar history of resistance against oppression and repression of dissent.…
– Maham Shah I am from a generation who have seen their grandparents staring blankly in distance Recollecting T h e P a s t T h e T r a n s i t i o n. For them…
Amna Zaffar ‘Pakistan’, a country of mixed ethnicities, cultures, languages and history, which all came together under one identity, in 1947. Where independence of Pakistan is only 73 years old there’s a 272 years old, Muslim independent state in Pakistan…
Mudabbir Ali The independence of India and Pakistan (from each other) was made possible through partition which later unfolded as one of the most violent mass-migrations in modern world history. At the end of the second world war it was…
Nishta N. In his book, Poet of the Revolution, Lal Singh Dil writes- Once, for instance, following a Brahmin who resembled Tagore, I entered the little pool of water by the well where the Jat boys were bathing. I must have been…
Yubaraj Chaulagain Many nations of the world during the period of early capitalism were forced to live under the colonial rule. Although colonialism had its brutal existence even from the early state of nations, but it got its different ideological…
Debojit Banerjee In 1945, just after World War II ended, the police opened fire upon protesters gathered to protest the incarceration and trial of three Indian National Army (INA) officers who were facing unjust trial at the hands of the…
Maleeha Basharat The Islamabad police just arrested trans-activist Julie Khan. She is known for her viral social media series “The Naked Truth”. She often talks about the problems that transwomen face including sexual abuse, harassment, poverty. A month earlier, a…
Shikha Mishra Preamble of the Indian Constitution “We, the people of India having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a [Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic] and to secure to all its citizens: Justice, social, economic and political; Liberty of thought,…