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A slew of Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata this year have, in their themes, evoked imagery from pre-independence Bengal and the Partition, and highlighted the history of freedom fighters especially from ...

At the launch of The Last Bench (Ekada/Westland Books) in Kolkata last week, Adhir Biswas said his experience of untouchability as a child was painful, but also a treasure. With no one willing to play ...

Lines that Changed Lives In 1947, the Partition of India split British India into new nations—India and Pakistan, with East Pakistan later becoming Bangladesh. A hastily drawn boundary called the […] ...

The streets of Calcutta (now Kolkata) witnessed one of the bloodiest communal riots in India's pre-independence era. On August 16, 1946, a day now remembered as Direct Action Day or the Great Calcutta ...

Kolkata's Durga Puja celebrations this year commemorate India's freedom struggle and the Partition era. Hatibagan Nabinpally pays tribute to women who participated in the Quit India Movement, ...

On October 16, 1905, Dhaka became the capital of the newly-created province of East Bengal and Assam, in the wake of what is known as the Partition of Bengal (1905–1911). Although the stated aim of ...

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri prepares to tell the forgotten history on the Bengal partition with his upcoming film The Bengal Files. Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, known for critically acclaimed films ...