A valid passport and visa were once mandatory at this Indian railway station
Attari Railway Station in Punjab near the India-Pakistan border used to have a unique requirement for Indian citizens to ...
India's last railway station, where no trains ever stop
Located in the Habibpur area of the Malda district in West Bengal, Singhabad is a unique Indian railway station where no passenger trains have stopped for decades. This station marks the point where ...
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India's Partition: How the ending of British rule uprooted millions and hit generations that followed
Thousands of Muslims took trains to the new Pakistan after Partition ... Where I grew up was really like pre-partition India – with Hindu and Muslim neighbours either side of our Sikh household.
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Partition of India — remarkable stories of escape from ‘horrific violence’
India was intended to be majority-Hindu and a new state – Pakistan – was created for Muslims. The division, known as partition, saw millions of Muslims moving to live in Pakistan and millions ...
Theatre review: Indian Partition need not be defining catastrophe in Haresh Sharma’s Eclipse
Shrey Bhargava toggles among at least three characters under the direction of A Yagnya. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Six things we learnt from Woman’s Hour’s Partition of India special programme
To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Partition of India, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour dedicated the entire programme to hearing about the forgotten women of Partition. In August 1947 ...