The posthumous launch of Desai’s final book became a space to revisit Partition and the shared origins of two towering leaders ...

My earliest memory of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s Quaid-i-Azam, or Great Leader, is from my childhood. The electricity had gone because of load shedding, and I was doing my homework despite my ...

MUMBAI, (IANS) – Mumbai’s famed landmark — the Jinnah House on Malabar Hill — which was once the hub of brainstorming sessions over the contentious Partition of India, remains a charming orphan for ...

Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the principal architect of Pakistan, while Shaheed Suhrawardy was one of the movement's firmest pillars. Both men were marked by courage and energy. Suhrawardy's popularity, ...

Mohammed Ali Jinnah is played by Arif Zakaria, who recently played another Indian independence movement leader, Acharya Kripalani, in Rajkumar Santoshi’s revisionist film about that period in history, ...

As India gets ready to celebrate its 79th year of independence, the exuberance of freedom is interwoven with the sweet-sour memories of a divided nation. On August 14, 1947, at sunrise over Karachi, ...

After being the creative force behind shows like The Empire and Rocket Boys, filmmaker Nikkhil Advani’s tryst with history continues with the upcoming SonyLIV series, Freedom at Midnight. The ...

Rain and Rainbows: Taiwan Celebrates Pride as Hong Kong’s LGBTQ Rights Stall That the two founding figures of Indian and Pakistani independence were united by a shared love of Urdu speaks eloquently ...

He was 42 and she was 18. The union of the reclusive and enigmatic Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the free spirited Ruttie Petit, was not a match made in heaven. New Delhi: He was 42 and she was 18. The ...