After finishing the ugly job assigned to him, Cyril Radcliffe burned all his papers, refused his handsome fee of 40,000 rupees and fled the subcontinent. He had just separated the new Muslim state of ...

Sam Dalrymple’s narrative history on the shattering of South Asia, in which individuals, their actions, and their circumstances take center stage, is fresh and readable ...

A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Along the way she sees overturned bullock carts, ...

Intergenerational trauma has become a buzzword over the last several years. It was first explored in the research of Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Rakoff and her colleagues in 1966. They found higher ...

Raja Singh had no formal education, yet he went on to launch one of India’s highest-selling TV brands and emerged as a doyen in the electronics industry.