The museum, which is the second partition museum to open in the country after the first was opened in Amritsar, Punjab, seven years ago, is situated in the Dara Shukoh Library building within the ...

Seventy years after one of the most deadly and disruptive political cataclysms of modern times, the Partition Museum has opened in the Indian city of Amritsar. It is the first cultural institution ...

“The Partition is still present,” says Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra. “Its wounds are not shallow. They run deep.” The author is, however, against “condensing” the event to just violence. How does ...

Reporting from Amritsar, India — Amolak Swani’s knobby fingers gripped a cane as she shuffled into the room, her daughter holding her at the elbow. She settled into a chair with a sigh and began ...

It has been 70 years since India and Pakistan were created from former British colony. There has never been an avenue to explore the stories and memorabilia of those who lived through the horror of ...

The Partition Museum is the first of its kind, dedicated to the memory of the Partition of India in 1947 — its victims, its survivors and its lasting legacy. The Government of Punjab, India, has ...

The Partition Museum in Amritsar has been shortlisted for the 2020 Museums + Heritage Awards for its 2019 collaborative exhibition ‘Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege’ with the Manchester ...

Delhi's first museum dedicated to the partition of India is set open its doors at the end of this year following Covid-related delays. It is the sister museum to one located in Amritsar in the ...

Famous Bollywood lyricist and CFBC chairman Prasoon Joshi had called the Partition Museum a beating heart, full of memories and stories which connect generations across India and Pakistan. With the ...

The paper is old and the writing has faded into an indistinguishable grey. Yet, the firmness in the hand of the writer is visible after 70 years. HT Image (AP file photo) Around him, as he wrote in ...