An eminently watchable movie based on a mediocre novel.
reviewed by Paramjit Rai
Talking to Rehan Ansari in these pages some months back, filmmaker Deepa Mehta noted that making films
We asked for permission to cross the border on foot or by car, but were told that Indians and Pakistanis could not do this.
Taking off from Lahore airport, if
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition
by Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition is a timely book for all
Since 13 April 1984, Indian and Pakistani troops have confronted each other, eyeball to eyeball, for control of the Siachen Glacier and its approaches in the eastern Karakoram mountain range,
The Other Side of Silence
by Urvashi Butalia
Viking, New Delhi, 1998
Dayawanti/Ayesha could easily be a character out of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. So could her son
Two 50-year-old siblings still play tit-for-tat.
For all of lnder Kumar Gujral´s overtures to Pakistan, it is still ludicrously difficult for Pakistanis to visit India, as Lahori journalist c
This documentary on the principal character responsible for the creation of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was obviously made with an eye on the golden jubilee celebrations of the independence of
The Ail-India Muslim League was formed in Dhaka in 1906 as a political platform for Muslims in British India. Eventually, under the leadership of finnah, the Urdu-speaking elite-dominated Muslim League
Satellite television is reaching out, but the target audience is still Indians.
It´s 11:30 on a lazy Sunday morning, India time, and if you want to look over
Now that the breathless television extravaganza of the 50th anniversary of Independence of India and Pakistan is over, we can perhaps take a more sober look at the past half-century.
Talks between India and Pakistan are periodically resumed and abandoned, with both sides fixated in their positions and little hope for reconciliation. Rather than throw one´s hands up in
