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the tensions over the idea of Pakistan continue to this day. The history society at Ramjas College in University of Delhi organised a lecture by Prof Venkat Dhulipala on his work on the idea of Pakistan and history of partition of India in 1947. He spoke at Ramjas college on 13 August 2015. The lecture was introduced by the well known Indian historian Prof Dilip Simeon (a former teacher at the history dept. at Ramjas college)

Raga for Peace concert in Oslo in 2014

Before the generation that experienced the pain of Partition passes away, cultural activists come together to build a museum to preserve the dusty images of composite culture for posterity

In August, 1947, when, after three hundred years in India, the British finally left, the subcontinent was partitioned into two independent nation states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Immediately, there began one of the greatest migrations in human history, as millions of Muslims trekked to West and East Pakistan (the latter now known as Bangladesh) while millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed in the opposite direction. Many hundreds of thousands never made it.

on August 7, Niladri Chatterjee — writer, blogger, secular activist — was killed by unnamed assailants in his own home. The attack took place right after Jumma prayers at his residence in Goran, in Khilgaon, near Banasree. He was hacked to death, having been stabbed 14 times by machete-wielding pawns of justice.