Fracture of a Subcontinent: Munizae Jahangir, Aasha Mehreen Amin, Radhika Ramaseshan, Jyoti Malhotra

Fracture of a Subcontinent: Munizae Jahangir, Aasha Mehreen Amin and Radhika Ramaseshan in conversation with Jyoti Malhotra


The fracture of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, into India and Pakistan, and subsequently in 1971, the further division of Pakistan and formation of an independent nation, Bangladesh, continues to cast a shadow on the present. As India and Pakistan enter the 75th year of their independence, they remain hostile twins, while Pakistan and Bangladesh are barely able to tolerate each other. And yet, despite the inability of their governments to come to terms with their past, the people of India and Pakistan - less so, between Pakistan and Bangladesh -- seem to still be able to summon up the reserves for some normalcy. The world offers several models for resolving conflicts- Germany and Ireland come to mind. In the divided Indian subcontinent, though, the past is not just always present, the present is often a crutch for the pain of remembered memory. How, then, can the Indian subcontinent achieve its full human and creative potential? Perhaps the 75th anniversary of its fracture is a good start for an honest conversation.

Munizae Jahangir is a broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, currently anchoring a flagship current affairs show, ‘Spotlight with Munizae Jahangir’, on Aaj TV, one of Pakistan’s leading news media networks. She is a co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Voicepk.net, and was the first Pakistani journalist to have reported for an Indian news channel, NDTV, as their country correspondent for ten years. Jahangir’s high profile interviews include Hillary Clinton, Sadiq Khan, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and Malala Yousafzai. She was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a founding member of South Asian Women in Media.

Aasha Mehreen Amin is the Head of Editorial and Opinion, and a Senior Deputy Editor of The Daily Star, Bangladesh, and has been working for the paper for the last thirty-one years. She was a former editor of The Star, a weekly magazine of The Daily Star for which she also wrote a satirical column – ‘Postscript’. Amin currently writes on human rights and social trends in her column ‘No Strings Attached’.

Radhika Ramaseshan has been a journalist since the ‘80s after completing a Master’s in English Literature from Bombay University. She has worked out of Mumbai, Guwahati and Lucknow before settling down in Delhi in magazines, news weeklies and dailies. Ramaseshan is presently a consulting editor with Business Standard and a columnist for The Tribune and TOI Plus. Currently, she is working on a book on Uttar Pradesh’s political history.

Jyoti Malhotra has been a journalist for more than thirty-five years and currently works as a consulting editor with The Print, where she writes a column on India's foreign policy and anchors two video shows on Indian politics and foreign affairs. Previously, Malhotra has worked with several media in a variety of languages, both in India and abroad, including The Indian Express, The Times of India and BBC.

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