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70 years on: Make the borders porous

70 years on: Make the borders porous

This August we look back 70 years of the Partition of India — essentially the vivisection of Punjab and Bengal. Bengal of course had been partitioned earlier, while the prosperous and thriving...
India, Pakistan: So near and yet so far – MilneDo

India, Pakistan: So near and yet so far – MilneDo

At Wagah border on Sunday, the cyclists who had set off from Delhi and Lahore respectively calling for a thaw in India-Pakistan relations, tried to wave and connect with each other across the iron...
My Lahore journey

My Lahore journey

An economics professor from India with a passion for Urdu poetry finds beauty, grace, humour and warmth, and differences and similarities, in an all too brief visit to Pakistan Before I set foot...
A Storify on #ModiInPakistan

A Storify on #ModiInPakistan

View the story “Indian PM Modi’s flash visit to Pakistan to meet PM Sharif” on Storify
A cross-border friendship puts women in the driving seat

A cross-border friendship puts women in the driving seat

An Indo-Pak friendship born in the United States underlines the shared value of women’s empowerment Sightings of women driving pink rickshaws around Lahore have seized global media attention about...
Indians, Pakistanis come together for inaugural Faiz International Festival

Indians, Pakistanis come together for inaugural Faiz International Festival

A large delegation from India includes Allahabad-based writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqi makes his first ever visit to Lahore, and actor Naseeruddin Shah returning with his play ‘Einstein’ The...
Javed Bashir: My family would always recount their happy memories of India

Javed Bashir: My family would always recount their happy memories of India

At a time when concerts of Ghulam Ali are being cancelled or facing disruption threats, and a recent play in Gurgaon by a theatre troupe from Pakistan was disrupted, Pakistani singer Javed Bashir has...
‘You speak Urdu but I hear Hindi’

‘You speak Urdu but I hear Hindi’

An Indian youth activist interacts with students in Lahore at a recent ‘Aman Chaupal’ Indian activist Devika Mittal, India convener of the cross-border youth group Aaghaz-e-Dosti,...
An Indian in Lahore

An Indian in Lahore

Hearing that I was going to visit Lahore, my friends and family thought I had lost my mind. They feared for my safety in the “enemy country”. They couldn’t have been more wrong...