The lungs depicted on them belonged to the rigid and inflexible man who had frustrated Louis Mountbatten’s efforts to preserve India’s unity. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the one unmovable obstacle ...

[For details see Muhammad Reza Kazimi, “Clearing the Confusion” Dawn, 28 March 1992] Lord Mountbatten’s Publicity Officer concocted the myth that Jinnah had nominated Radcliffe. [Alan ...

Mountbatten promptly took his leave and later emplaned for New Delhi to preside over India’s birth as a state the next day. The photograph of the Quaid with Fatima Jinnah that evening reveals a ...

No doubt Kashmir remains a painful dispute, a source of tension and mistrust, and a memory of those difficult days when great men like Nehru, Patel, Jinnah, and Mountbatten fought over territory ...

But Traitors’ contestant Lord Ivar Mountbatten, who is the second cousin of King Charles, is insisting she’s wrong. Mountbatten, 61, was asked about his thoughts on the Suits alum’s rebrand ...

(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated August 31, 2009) Partition is the greatest still-running 'whodunnit' of Indian history. Was the deed done at the ...