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The Lasting Cultural Impact of Partition

07/01/2017 GMT

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How the partition of India in 1947 continues to influence culture in India and Pakistan

This August will mark 70 years since the partition of India and the creation of the nation of Pakistan. Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie and Indian writer Urvashi Butalia discuss how the legacy of partition continues to influence culture in the two countries seven decades on.

As Kenya prepares for elections this year, Kaz and Nini of the successful sex podcast The Spread, discuss how they’re challenging conservative attitudes to sex in Kenya.

As the centenary approaches, award-winning Russian novelist Eugene Vodolazkin reflects on why the Russian Revolution of 1917 continues to fascinate the country’s novelists.

With Tina Daheley.

(Photo: flags of India and Pakistan Credit: PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/GettyImages)

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