Virtual lecture on “A psychoanalytic view of Indian partition from a Hindu viewpoint”, organized by Sriti O chetona
All Indians have no shortage of interest in the history of Partition. India is still suffering from the horrors and hellish politics of partition. But the wrong aspects and writing of the history of Partition have long kept Indians in a deep quagmire. Of late, Indians have learned to realize that various historians, influenced by […]
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