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Thoughts Liberated!

The Real Freedom Song
By: Anshu Shrivastava
Big Eyes had given them a new life and an untouched land without any condition or asked anything in exchange. All the thirteen were free of any want, desire, or need .... read more

Fiction

Ma Kalpana
By: Anshu Shrivastava
The watchful four eyes did not for a moment let the kite go out of their sight. It was a careful climb up the tree -- fearless and determined was the approach. read more

Poetry

The Price of Freedom
By: Nidhi Gupta
Layers of dust upon the mirror,
Gathered day in and day out,
New buds never could sprout,
And the old flames did not stir, read more

Literature & Art

Pen of Independent India
By: Charan Ahuja
Tagore fearlessly used words against the British rule, fuelling the Indian Independence movement with his poetry and literary works. In the years to follow, Indian literature witnessed some read more

History

History, Partition & Movies
By: Ankita Kaul & Simrita Takhtar
A new genre of historians have taken partition and studied its complexity, trying to do justice to the memories of people and trying to argue how partition went beyond a single date and event. read more

Randomness

Lost in the Orgy of Violence
By: Charan Ahuja
It is 63 years since the dawn of Independence, but the past still continues to haunt for those who survived the horrors of partition. While two nations celebrate independence every year, a section of people on both sides read more