Sentence examples for partition stories from inspiring English sources

(He means his partition stories).

Few of the famous Partition stories are included, but no matter: Selected Stories (published by Vintage India, hopefully it can get an international release in the near future) is a worthy introduction to Manto and a nice companion volume to Bombay Stories, another recent clutch of newly-translated stories which was published abroad last year.

Manto's most celebrated Partition story, "Toba Tek Singh," proceeds from a simple premise, laid out in the opening lines: Two or three years after the 1947 Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan to exchange their lunatics in the same manner as they had exchanged their criminals.

It does not have walls, but is partitioned by three stories of strung crystal.

Nearly every Indian has heard stories of Partition.

But it is for his stories of partition that he is best remembered: as the greatest chronicler of this most savage episode in the region's history.

The dastangos ended the narration by quoting Mr. Manto himself, who was well known for writing hard-hitting stories on partition: "If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable.

But Ms. Sikander, born in Pakistan a generation after partition, gobbles up the stories and symbols of every trend and tradition she has encountered on her own globe-trotting path, from Lahore to New England to Houston to Brooklyn, where she now lives.

Stories of Partition evoked feelings of fear, sympathy and horror long distances away.

Explains methods used to construct a system of interior concrete partitions & floors 6 stories below the street.

It was at that moment that I vowed I would make a film that told the story of partition.