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After the Raj

Cif bloggers write about India and Pakistan in August 2007, 60 years after partition
  • Live by milk and rice

    Jon Wilson

    Jon Wilson: After the Raj: Bangladesh's experience since partition has been high expectations followed by dashed hopes.

  • Would you like to visit Pakistan?

    Ravinder Kaur

    Ravinder Kaur: After the Raj: It hasn't always been an option for those who were once forced to move across the newly carved borders to India.

    • Bollywood to Lollywood

      Abdul-Rehman Malik
    • The partition delusion

      Clive Baldwin
    • The sexual politics of partition

      Sunny Hundal
  • Full speed ahead

    Hamant Verma

    Hamant Verma: After the Raj: Today, the emerging relationship between Britain and India is based on mutual trust and co-operation. This is the future.

  • Never the twins shall meet

    Dilip Hiro

    Dilip Hiro: After the Raj: Partition created two very different states - and their contrasting characters were stamped into their respective DNA.

  • Magic day dreams

    Inder Malhotra

    Inder Malhotra: After the Raj: Independent India may have achieved some of Nehru's hopes, but many of them have been shattered.

  • Tahmima Anam

    Partition's other anniversary

    Tahmima Anam
  • Time to be a better neighbour

    Mark Tully
  • The experiment that failed

    stephen kinzer
  • Peter Tatchell

    Pakistan celebrates, Baluchistan mourns

    Peter Tatchell
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