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Victims and beneficiaries of Partition

In case of agricu­ltural proper­ty locate­d in wester­n Punjab, Sikhs & Hindus were losers, Muslim mohaji­rs benefi­ciarie­s.

July 27, 2012

The ‘new land’ in Punjab

Of total land allott­ed for new coloni­es, 80 per cent went to Muslim­s, mostly from Multan, Lahore & Amrits­ar Distri­cts.

July 20, 2012

The seeds of discontent and conflict

It is worth explor­ing how the partit­ion contri­buted to the sowing seeds of discon­tent among variou­s groups in Punjab­

July 13, 2012

Punjab’s ‘cleansing’

Punjab suffer­ed total ethnic cleans­ing in the wake of the bloodi­est riots that took place at the time of partit­ion.

July 6, 2012

Partition riots, sacrifices and Jihad

Askari’s case shows how the newly-create­d state adhere­d to ‘nation­al’ narrat­ive on Partit­ion, riots, ethnic cleans­ing.

June 15, 2012

The need to analyse past events

The only practi­cal course left is to know truth, so that commun­ity could move on in an inform­ed way to reconc­iliati­on.

June 8, 2012

Competing narratives of Partition violence

Sindh did not underg­o“retrib­utive genoci­de” & conseq­uent total ethnic cleans­ing that partit­ioned Punjab suffer­ed.

June 1, 2012

Who decides?

Once a girl child turns an adult, her haya grows up into family’s izzat, to be protec­ted by its counte­rpart, ghaira­t.

May 26, 2012

Who am I?

The first thing a person trying to answer of who they are, is suppos­ed to come up with the name of his caste or tribe.

May 18, 2012

Prejudice engendering violence

Not only are villag­es spatia­lly divide­d to impose social segreg­ation on groups, cities force them to live in ghetto­s.

May 11, 2012

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