Partition Remembrance Day: Painful Memories and Lessons to be Learnt - News18
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Partition Remembrance Day: Painful Memories and Lessons to be Learnt - News18

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Belonging to a refugee family from West Punjab, I grew up with the pain of being uprooted from our native place with a thought of going back there one day. I still remember one of the elders telling the story of living in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi even after 15 August, converting to Islam to get back one of the female family member. The Sikhs and Hindus of now Pakistan were getting signals from majority Muslims about “Raliv, galiv Ya chaliv” since the 1920s. Pakistan’s official “history of the freedom movement of Muslims in the India-Pakistan subcontinent covering the period from death of emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 to the establishment of Pakistan in 1947” reveals their approach. Mobs were organised in the name of Deen by the Muslim League, Muslim police, administration and military helped committing genocide of Hindus and Sikhs.

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Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha
1 year, 5 months ago

Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha

Hindustan Times  

AGARTALA: India was partitioned in 1947 due to the wishes of only “two persons” though many Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and people from all other religions were against it, Tripura chief minister Manik Saha said at a programme to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in Agartala on Monday. Tripura chief minister Manik Saha “If we think that only Hindus didn’t want …

PM pays tributes to victims of partition, Shah describes it as a “dark chapter of history”
1 year, 5 months ago

PM pays tributes to victims of partition, Shah describes it as a “dark chapter of history”

The Hindu  

On the eve of Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to those who lost their lives due to the partition of India into the two countries of India and Pakistan, a day that his government had in 2021 announced would be marked as “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day”. His cabinet colleague, Home Minister Amit Shah also paid respects to …

Nadda Takes Part in Silent Procession to Mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day
2 years, 5 months ago

Nadda Takes Part in Silent Procession to Mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

News 18  

BJP national president J P Nadda on Sunday participated in a silent procession in Delhi in remembrance of India’s Partition in 1947 and the tragedy associated with it. The procession from Jantar Mantar to Connaught Place also saw the participation of Union ministers Piyush Goel and Anurag Thakur, BJP vice president Vaijayanti Panda, the party’s Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta …

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: PM Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Recall 'Inhuman Chapter Of Indian History'
2 years, 5 months ago

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: PM Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Recall 'Inhuman Chapter Of Indian History'

ABP News  

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day is observed in India on August 14. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi stated, "Today, on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, I pay homage to all those who lost their lives during Partition, and applaud the resilience as well as grit of all those who suffered during that tragic period of our history." — Narendra Modi August 14, …

Will Partition Remembrance Day Act Aid in Healing from Tragedy or Reopen Wounds?
2 years, 5 months ago

Will Partition Remembrance Day Act Aid in Healing from Tragedy or Reopen Wounds?

The Quint  

Heaping blame on the doorsteps of Muslims for multiple woes is essential for the Hindutva votaries to enlist the electoral support of large sections of Hindus. Events related to Partition were distorted earlier too, in recent years most importantly by Union Home Minister Amit Shah who accused the Congress during the debate on the Citizenship Amendment Bill of “Partitioning the …

Mere symbolism won't remove pain of partition: Shiv Sena
3 years, 4 months ago

Mere symbolism won't remove pain of partition: Shiv Sena

India TV News  

The Shiv Sena on Monday said the pain of partition will not go away by mere symbolism, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. "The present-day rulers must take care that seeds of another partition should not be sown from the earlier pain," an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece …

‘Modi Trying to Create History Without Knowing It’: TMC MP Slams Centre over Partition Horrors Remembrance Day
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Modi Trying to Create History Without Knowing It’: TMC MP Slams Centre over Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

News 18  

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared August 14 Partition Horror Remembrance Day, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy strongly criticised the government and said “Modi is trying to create history without knowing it”. BJP is the new avatar of Hindu Mahasabha.” “Partition is what people of Bengal will always remember and TMC will counter BJP,” Roy added. He …

PM Modi announces #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay on 14th August
3 years, 5 months ago

PM Modi announces #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay on 14th August

Op India  

On the 14th of August, Pakistan celebrates its Independence Day. Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended that silence by institutionalising the conversation around the partition by announcing 14th August to be observed as #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay. Taking to Twitter, PM Narendra Modi announced that 14th August would henceforth be celebrated as Vibhishika Memorial Day or #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay. देश के बंटवारे के दर्द को …

Pakistan: Minority Hindus 'pardon' the Islamists who had razed down Krishna Dwara temple in December
3 years, 10 months ago

Pakistan: Minority Hindus 'pardon' the Islamists who had razed down Krishna Dwara temple in December

Op India  

The minority Hindu minority community in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in Pakistan has reportedly decided to forgive the hundreds of radical Islamists who had razed down and destroyed the Krishna Dwara temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district on December 30, 2020. The Krishna Dwara temple, which is situated in Karak’s Teri union council, had come under attack by hundreds of …

Kashmiri Pandit Genocide: Then and now, from Azadi slogans to Hindu hate, the nature of Jihad and its apologists remain unchanged
4 years, 11 months ago

Kashmiri Pandit Genocide: Then and now, from Azadi slogans to Hindu hate, the nature of Jihad and its apologists remain unchanged

Op India  

The 19th of January, 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the valley. Read: Saba Naqvi mirrors Jihadis, insinuates that re-settling Kashmiri Pandits in the valley is a part of the ‘Hinduisation’ project One of the distinctive features of Radical Islamic Terrorism is that while terrorists are busy committing the most heinous of crimes against …

Sikh Youth Killed in Pakistan’s Peshawar by 'Unknown Gunmen'
5 years ago

Sikh Youth Killed in Pakistan’s Peshawar by 'Unknown Gunmen'

The Quint  

Meanwhile, Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday said, “India strongly condemns targeted killing of minority Sikh community member in Peshawar that follows recent despicable vandalism and desecration of Gurdwara Sri Janam Asthan at Nankana Sahib and unresolved case of abduction, forced conversion and marriage of a Sikh girl.” MEA has further called upon the Pakistan’s government to take immediate action …

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