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Watch: Taj Mahal Palace to mark eve of Independence Day by recreating menu from 1947

The Taj is also offering all serving and retired Indian Armed Forces personnel a special discount of 70 percent across its hotels in India to celebrate Independence Day

Watch: How an oral history project is preserving memories of the India-Pakistan partition

70 years since August 1947, historians are racing to record accounts of the last living witnesses of the partition. The Oral Archive Project records these fragments of oral history collected by the Citizen Archives of Pakistan.

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson hits back at Amit Shah's 'chatur baniya' comment, calls it 'tasteless'

Mahatma Gandhi was a man who overcame "British lion" and "snakes of communal poison" in the country making him more than a "chatur baniya": Rajmohan Gandhi