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Post-Independence India

The Long Walk Home: Partition's Refugees and the Remaking of India

At midnight on 15 August 1947 India woke to freedom, but for over seven million people, freedom arrived as a refugee column. This is the story of the camps, the colonies, and the laws that rebuilt their lives.

27 September 2026 · 21 min read

Modern History

Two Nations, One Tragedy: Communalism and the Road to Partition

From Dhaka 1906 to Lahore 1940 to Calcutta's blood in 1946, how religious identity became political currency, and how the two-nation theory ended in Partition.

27 September 2026 · 19 min read

Modern History

Drawing the Line: Why India Was Partitioned in 1947

Why India was divided in 1947: the collapse of compromise, Mountbatten's 72-day timetable, the Independence Act, and the human cost.

27 September 2026 · 22 min read

Modern History

Curzon's Partition, Tilak's Thunder: How Bengal Broke the Moderate Mould

Curzon cut Bengal in two in 1905 to weaken nationalism - and radicalised a generation instead. Lal-Bal-Pal rose, the Congress split at Surat in 1907, and polite petitioning died.

27 September 2026 · 36 min read

International Relations

India-Pakistan relations: conflict, terrorism and the limits of engagement

From Partition and the 1947 war to Pahalgam and Operation Sindoor: Kashmir, cross-border terrorism, the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance and why engagement keeps failing.

27 September 2026 · 26 min read