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Seeking solace: A daughter’s cross-border journey

Seeking solace: A daughter’s cross-border journey

Jan 09, 2025 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

It is unbearable to even imagine being forced to leave your hometown or risk being slaughtered simply because you belong to a different religion. But I did not find any bitterness in Bani...
How can India and Pakistan ‘win without fighting’?

How can India and Pakistan ‘win without fighting’?

Nov 26, 2024 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

When an Indian is in the room, and it isn’t ‘bad news’ – and why can’t the relationship between India and Pakistan be modelled on the relationship between Mani Shankar...
As Bangladesh struggles for stability, ‘peacemongers’ express solidarity and gear up to converge at the India-Pakistan border on Aug 14

As Bangladesh struggles for stability, ‘peacemongers’ express solidarity and gear up to converge at the India-Pakistan border on Aug 14

Aug 14, 2024 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

PERSONAL POLITICALBy Beena Sarwar / Sapan News At midnight on 14 August, several hundred Pakistani and Indian peace activists plan to converge at the Wagah-Attari border with candles, placards, and...
A journalist in India remembers a Pakistani peace activist who brought home her late grandfather’s ashes

A journalist in India remembers a Pakistani peace activist who brought home her late grandfather’s ashes

Jul 11, 2024 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

A personal tribute to Karamat Ali (19 August 1945 – 20 June 2024) Karamat Ali was many things but for me he was always the person who returned my grandfather Kuldip Nayar to the home he was...
A flute, a song, and a mango tree: Sharing seeds of positivity, one step at a time

A flute, a song, and a mango tree: Sharing seeds of positivity, one step at a time

Mar 13, 2024 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Through careful grafting, a Pakistani mango tree has bonded with an Indian one at the Peace Hill Garden in Pune, India. How it made its way over is a story worth telling. And the hope is that the...
Hindu contesting Pakistan provincial elections overwhelmed by support from Muslims

Hindu contesting Pakistan provincial elections overwhelmed by support from Muslims

Feb 07, 2024 Articles, News, Top Stories 0

Aims to work for upgrading health care facilities, girls’ education By Neel Kamal Whatever the outcome of Pakistan’s February 8 national assembly elections, Dr Saveera Parkash feels...
Celebrating the love and resilience of Amrita Pritam and Fahmida Riaz

Celebrating the love and resilience of Amrita Pritam and Fahmida Riaz

Jan 25, 2024 Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

Upcoming event: An evening of dialogue, poetry and music dedicated to the late radical feminist poets Amrita Pritam of India and Fahmida Riaz of Pakistan. ‘Ishq, Siyasat, aur Awam’ (Love,...
The suffering continues: No relief in sight for Indian, Pakistani fishermen

The suffering continues: No relief in sight for Indian, Pakistani fishermen

Oct 04, 2023 Articles, Editorial, News, Top Stories 0

By Jatin Desai and Beena Sarwar The last rites of Indian fisherman Jagdish Mangal Bamaniya were performed in his native village in Gujarat, India, last week – 42 days after his death,...
Women authors, Partition stories, and shared histories

Women authors, Partition stories, and shared histories

Aug 15, 2023 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

As India and Pakistan mark 76 years of independence from British rule and simultaneous Partition, a look at the intertwined stories and work of three young women oral historians from the region By...
Pakistani woman and brother left behind in India meet for the first time, 76 years after Partition

Pakistani woman and brother left behind in India meet for the first time, 76 years after Partition

Aug 15, 2023 Articles, Editorial, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0

LUDHIANA: A Pakistani woman hugged her Indian brother and broke into tears after an agonising 74 years of separation on Sunday evening at the Kartarpur corridor — a 4km physical passage between...