In Tamilnadu, the press and public rendered their support to the people of Bengal by opposing the partition. The leading press like Swadesa Mitran, the Swadesi, Altab-e-Dakhan, Shamsul-Akbar, Indian Patriot and others opposed the partition and criticized Lord Curzon and his partition policy....
THEAFTERMATHOFPARTITIONWHILEDelhiandtherestofIndiawerecelebratingtheadventofIndependence,thefateoftheminoritiesinareasdirectlyaffectedbythe partitionofthecountrywashangingperilouslyinthebalance.TheMuslimLeague's'DirectAction'campaign,followedbytheCalcuttakillinganddisturbancesintheNoakhalidistrictofEastBengalandinBihar...
We, as a people, are not much sold on the `what' of the thing, but the `why' and `how' of it. This is the epic attitude."Time and again, a sense of tremendous personal agony erupts into Ghatak's socio-historical analysis. His obsessive returns to the moment of Bengal's division...
This paper attempts to study Ghatak's film, Subarnarekha (1962) and explore the impact of Partition and the functioning of patriarchy in the lives of the refugees from East Bengal. The tragic predicament of the innumerable immigrants has been portrayed through the skilful cinematic technique in ...