The Punjab Partition Forum

Soon we will be celebrating 80 years of India's independence. Our eternal August that reminds us of the tragedy of Partition and also the birth of a new nation. We have come a long way from that year. The process of how the country was divided, the individuals who were making decisions on our behalf, the circumstances and the consequences of that fateful year is still haunting us after all these years. We debate on who said what and who did what. We debate whether we could ha

And I sit here thousands of miles away thinking about Punjab Parts of my memory fade, the parts when I was closer to Punjab It is asking me to come back Back into its fold Back into its warm embrace The idea of going back is getting stronger by the day I belong to that land, to its people, to its history Where ever I go, somehow the past beckons The past tells me not to forget my identity, my self-worth I somehow represent it Where ever I go, it goes with me Its history weave

Ramanjit Singh How India Kept Lahore's Lights On After Partition In the fever of 1947, in the meeting rooms of Delhi, and London where Pakistan was argued into existence, the men who drew the new world spoke of sovereignty, of religion, of homeland. What they did not speak of, what perhaps they could not bring themselves to fully reckon with, were the wires. The roads. The railways. The canals that crossed every border they proposed. The Muslim League, Jinnah, and the archite