Karachi was deemed the capital of the new nation of Pakistan. This, of course, was much before Islamabad became a reality. Readers of the Indian Express were given this thumbnail sketch of the city’s history and its rapid transformation
On April 28, 1947, India’s Constitution makers re-assembled in Constitution Hall. This brief five-day session saw the adoption of the Fundamental Rights as proposed by Sardar Patel on behalf of the Advisory Committee. An excerpt from an Indian Express article carried in the Independence Number
Among the various pieces commemorating Independence Day that were carried in the Indian Express of that time was one that took note of a work in progress — the drafting of a new constitution for a new nation...
The Indian Express Independence Number of 1947 carried special messages from various leaders, both at home and abroad. Sarojini Naidu was characteristically poetic, Maulana Azad typically circumspect, and there were many others
Partition and the whole independence process was dreadfully serious business. But there were some, like Indian Express columnist Pothen Joseph, who could still squeeze some humour out of all the frantic activity around him through his column, ‘Over a Cup of Tea’. We carry the piece he wrote for the ‘Independence Number’ of 1947...
Scenes now lost in the mists of time emerge from this report, published in The Indian Express of August 17, 1947. Madras — specifically Fort St George — where the British first registered their presence, witnessed scenes of tumultuous joy as the Tricolour replaced the Union Jack on the Flag Staff. At around the same time, far away in Calcutta, Mahatma Gandhi was being mobbed by thousands who had gathered for his darshan
Could the new nation that was coming into being be trusted with running its own affairs? Dire predictions about how chaos would reign once the British left India’s shores did the rounds. In this article carried in the Indian Express’s Independence Number, commentator T.V. Acharya robustly took on the prophets of doom
Just before V.K. Krishna Menon was appointed high commissioner for India to the UK, he submitted this article to the Indian Express. There can be no looking back, he argued, the future will now have to be shaped by the millions who inhabit this land
