Seventy years after the two countries split, many Hindus and Muslims are still trying to separate
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The unfinished Partition of India and Pakistan | Banyan (The Economist)
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‘The wounds have never healed’: living through the terror of partition | Moni Mohsin
25 August 2017The creation of India and Pakistan in 1947 led to horrific sectarian violence and made millions refugees overnight. Seventy years on, five survivors remember
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An Interventionist Foreign Policy Blurs the Line of Demarcation Between Neoconservatives and Neoliberals
by , 25 August 2017President Trump’s address to the nation on August 21, 2017, in which he underscored his government’s stance vis-a-vis South Asia, gave me a sense of déjà vu.
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Full text of Supreme Court of India Judgment ALL WP(C) No 494 of 2012 Right to Privacy [24 August 2017] + Commentary
25 August 2017547 page ruling on the Right to Privacy by the Supreme Court of India on 24 August 2017 The Supreme Court pronounced that individual privacy is a fundamental right protected by the Constitution. The ruling was delivered by a rare nine-member bench and is based on an array of petitions that challenge the mandatory use of Aadhaar cards which assign a unique 12-digit ID to every citizen.
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Learning Chinese chequers
by , 24 August 2017Middle India is clearly chuffed. The prolonged confrontation with China on the Doklam plateau, which is into its third month, has provided the comforting illusion that India can stand up to its large neighbour unlike in 1962 when the Chinese inflicted a humiliating defeat on the country. . . Facts are almost irrelevant in this elevation of the national mood over the current stand-off.
