In 1947, more than 400 million people in British India stood on the brink of freedom – but sectarian mistrust, rival national ...

107-year-old Mirza Naseem Changezi (left) sits with his son Khalid Changezi, 60, at their home in the Old City of New Delhi. Changezi is reputed to be the Old City's oldest resident and says there was ...

JAVED Jabbar laments the fact that the independence and the partition have become synonymous (Independence, Not Partition’, Aug 14). The reason is simple: both happened at the same time. In fact, it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rishabh R. Jain, the Associated Press A worker sorts through photographs, newspaper clippings and other material that will cover the walls at the Partition ...

As India gets ready for its 75th Independence Day, celebrations are due but not without remembering the people who were displaced in the process and now call this city their home. Two members of the ...

Promila Saigal remembers the men in her family tossing her "like a football" from the rooftop of one family home to the next, in a bid to save her from the frenzy that washed over the Indian ...

Seventy years later, memories of the 1947 Partition stir deep emotions and some soul-searching among the last generation of Indians to have... For India's Oldest Citizens, Independence Day Spurs ...