Just so people know - since Ms. Marvel is a show about a Pakistani family, they showed us how Hasan and his family were uprooted from their home on the Indian side of the border and forced to move to Pakistan because they were Muslim. What they didn’t show was the fact that the same thing was happening to Hindus and Sikhs on the Pakistani side of the border. Of course, I’m not saying that they should’ve, because it’s not a part of Kamala’s story so it isn’t the main focus. Plus they can only cover so much in 45 minutes. But I just want to clarify that because I know a lot of non-South Asian Marvel fans are learning about the Partition for the first time from this show and it’s important to know that just because certain things were not shown on screen doesn’t mean they didn’t happen in reality.

PSA if you don't know anything about the partition of India don't talk to me about Palestine. As a Bangladeshi don't even start with me

The train station scenes of partition were filmed so beautifully it broke my heart and Kamala's Nani saying how we're still finding out who we are was so so true like half the people are still not sure if we should call ourselves Pakistani or Indian because some old ass Britishers drew a line between the country

“There are only a few writers who could cut you deep and still make you want to bleed and Manto is definitely one of them.”

Its the 77th Independence day of India and as a person who believes that we can't talk about Independence without talking about Manto's Partition, I shared my two cents in an article on Medium. The above quote is from the article. If you wanna read more, you can check it out here:

Wild that some people were frothing at the mouth at Ms. Marvel where Nani feels displaced because of what happened during Partition when my baby boomer full blooded Pakistani parents were like, "that totally tracts actually"

At Kashmere Gate

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Partition's Pain Revisited: 'Allah-Hu-Akbar' and 'Nara-E-Takbeer' Echoes Unearthed in 'Bengal 1947

Partition's Pain Revisited: 'Allah-Hu-Akbar' and 'Nara-E-Takbeer' Echoes Unearthed in 'Bengal 1947 #Bengal1947 #PartitionHistory #IndiaPakistanDivision #ReligiousTensions #HistoricalDramas

The haunting specter of India’s partition looms large whenever discussions arise, serving as a stark reminder of the bitter history that claimed the lives of over 20 million people. Now, this tumultuous era finds cinematic expression in “Bengal 1947.” Among its cast is the familiar face of television, Devoleena Bhattacharjee, known for her portrayal of ‘Gopi Bahu’ in the soap opera “Saath…

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Just finished reading Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Took me two days to get through it. And GOSH DANG IT it is AMAZING.

It tells the story of three women during the Partition of India in 1947. Choosing between love and ambition, finding their place in a newborn country split in two, divided by religion ..... Goodness, I loved it. Completely. Incredibly heart-wrenching. I finished it last night and still thinking about it. The characters and the love stories are haunting me.

This pattern holds across many of the conventional wars since World War II: a conflict over territory and power balance that began with the declaration of those modern states and that has flared intermittently ever since.

Armenia and Azerbaijan, for instance, two countries that also emerged out of the Soviet Union’s breakup, have fought periodic wars ever since, broken by long but tense cease-fires. India and Pakistan fought their first war within months of their independence and partition in 1947, followed by three more wars, most recently in 1999, and repeated lower-level conflicts now held at a tentative nuclear peace. North and South Korea reached an armistice in 1953 but remain in a technical state of war with occasional flare-ups and an ever-present threat of all-out fighting.

Such conflicts, in other words, have often persisted for as many as six or seven decades. With peace talks minimal or nonexistent in many cases, some may well continue longer than that.

And while outright fighting may be infrequent, with what Dr. Radchenko termed “active phases” lasting only a few months, periods of calm typically require deep international involvement to maintain. American troops, for instance, have been garrisoned in South Korea for more than 70 years.

It is impossible to predict whether this represents the future for Russia and Ukraine, though it perhaps already describes their present state. The seven years before Russia’s 2022 invasion were marked by lower-level fighting, with heavy Western diplomacy and support to Ukraine aimed at forestalling wider conflict.

This pattern shows that one side rarely vanquishes the other outright, especially with foreign states ready to step in. And it offers another lesson: Political change within those countries rarely provides the sort of breakthrough that observers are hoping might one day lead Moscow to pull back. The decade-long Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for instance, only deepened with the elevation, in 1985, of the reform-minded leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

  —  What 70 Years of War Can Tell Us About the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

90 year old Indian woman going to her ancestral home in Pakistan after 75 years

90 year old Indian woman going to her ancestral home in Pakistan after 75 years

India Pakistan Partition Story: The years old dream of 90 year old old lady of India is going to be fulfilled. After about 75 years, she is going to her ancestral home in Pakistan. Reena Chhibber Verma left her ancestral home in Rawalpindi, Pakistan 75 years ago during the partition. He had tried to go to Pakistan several times after partition, but his visa was rejected every time. Finally this…

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Call out for submissions!

In awe of the entries we have received over the last two weeks and in the hope of reading many more stories, poems and essays, we are extending our submission deadline to 24 June 2022. In this round, we also welcome artwork, comics, photo and video essays. 

The theme for the same is 'Unravelling, Questioning and Reimagining Freedom in Postcolonial South Asia'. Here, we invite you to investigate multiple histories and speculate alternate futures within the subcontinent. Through this call, we wish to collectively un/learn what independence, sovereignty, solidarity, belongingness and equality means, or rather could mean, across caste, class, religion, region, race, language, gender and generations. For this, we strongly encourage entries beyond the political landscapes of Punjab and Bengal; such that simultaneously position South Asia within the anthropocene, queer histories, non-human socialities, visual/digital popular cultures, diaspora politics, global protests and much more. 

The last date for submission is Friday, 24 June 2022. The word limit for each entry is 3000 words. The submissions will be published on our blog. For any queries OR to submit an entry, please write to [email protected]. Lastly, we want to thank everyone who has written to us yet as well as those who intend to do so in this round. We are grateful for your contributions and look forward to working with you all! 

OMG GUYS ITS HAPPENING

We are getting our stuff back yayyyyy!!!!!

The imperialist assholes are getting what they deserve 😗😗👍

This from a narrative of a South Asian.

Noooo Kamran will definitely turn into a baddie 😭😟

But Oh god it was soo good seeing women of Khan family together ❤️💙

Do you know what’s disgusting? The fact that Ms. Marvel is talking more about the partition of India than i heard in my 18 years of British education. It’s disgusting the way that we sweep our colonial atrocities under the rug so much that we aren’t even taught the basics in school 

EDIT: Maybe my original wording was a bit off and so i have edited it. I knew about the partition of India thanks to some amazing Desi friends. I just wanted to re-iterate how little the British education system teaches us about the shit that went down in that area of the world.