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From failing four times to securing an impressive AIR-3, IAS Uma has proved that there is no shortcut to success and hard work.
From failing four times to securing an impressive AIR-3, IAS Uma has proved that there is no shortcut to success and hard work.
Until the 1990s, Pakistan was hardly ever specifically mentioned in Hindi films. This has since changed — and depictions have ranged from conditional sympathy to unalloyed hostility. Politics and Pak-sponsored terrorism have played a role in determining Bollywood's narratives.
“Can one break a country...Will the earth bleed?” asks eight-year-old Lenny in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India (1988)–a tale about Partition. “No one’s going to break India. It’s not made of glass!”
There were also non-Muslims in East Bengal who had to stay back—many didn’t want to leave their ancestral place. Many didn't have the material support to migrate with their family. Partition literature hardly talks about them.