Month: January 2023

Partitioned Freedom

Book Summary by Abhay Vaidya, Director, PIC The partition of India in 1947 resulting in the horrific communal violence that engulfed the subcontinent is undoubtedly one of the greatest tragedies of human history. An estimated one million people were butchered and millions of lives destroyed in the Hindu-Muslim communal violence across the country in 1946-47 …

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Partitioned Freedom

Book Summary by Abhay Vaidya, Director, PIC The partition of India in 1947 resulting in the horrific communal violence that engulfed the subcontinent is undoubtedly one of the greatest tragedies of human history. An estimated one million people were butchered and millions of lives destroyed in the Hindu-Muslim communal violence across the country in 1946-47 …

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Braving a Viral Storm: India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Story 

Book Summary by Mr. Chandran Iyer Reality is stranger than fiction. This old adage was again proved right when the entire world was in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. What happened, in reality, had a chilling resemblance to what was depicted in the 2011 American medical thriller film Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh. The plot …

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