Freedom at Midnight

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Krishan, Y (February 1983). "Mountbatten and the Partition of India". History. Historical Association. 68 (222): 22–38. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.1983.tb01396.x. The electrifying story of India’s struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants – from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. What I appreciated about the book is that it clearly showed the impossible situation of the Labour government who had inherited such an awful polarization between the Moslems and the Hindus. The research about Mountbatten I am sure is worthy research. The significance of the new edition lies in engaging the minds of two generations born into a free country, to enable them to empathetically understand the aspirations and goals that united our leaders then towards the common cause of freedom. The significance lies in invoking the re-awakening of the Indian spirit. Surely it is time for the over 1 billion people in India to ask themselves honestly what their contribution has been thus far towards realizing an India free from poverty, illiteracy and inequality. The authors interviewed many who were there during the events, including a focus on Lord Mountbatten of Burma. [2] They subsequently wrote a book based in particular upon their research on the British officer, titled Mountbatten and the Partition of India, containing interviews with Mountbatten, and a selection of papers that were in his possession. [3] Response [ edit ]

Dominique Lapierre was born in Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France. At the age of thirteen, he travelled to America with his father who was a diplomat (Consul General of France). He attended the Jesuit school in New Orleans and became a paper boy for the "New Orleans Item". He developed interests in travelling, writing and cars and later traveled across the United States as a young man. Annarah Cymone as Sandra, a member of the Midnight Club who has terminal lymphoma and is a devoted ChristianSarojini Naidu, the poetess who studied at Girton, sought a grand pact between India’s Hindus and Muslims. This was later orchestrated by Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1916, then a Congress-minded nationalist and liberal.

Sandra is the one whose cancer has regressed, and Dr. Stanton tells her that her terminal diagnosis was an error. Kevin tells Ilonka that he's been sleepwalking to the secret floor ever since they found it and that he's been seeing the same visions and figures as her. They tell the other Midnight Club members but are met with skepticism, especially when Sandra confesses that she was the one who spoke to Spencer through Tristan's intercom. Disillusioned, Ilonka goes to Shasta, who reveals that she is Julia Jayne. At Midnight Club, Spencer tells a story about a college student whose VCR records news from the future. Ilonka sneaks Shasta and other female commune members into the building to do the ritual to heal Ilonka, but Ilonka is suspicious when the ritual is different from the one Shasta taught her. Dr. Stanton interrupts the ritual before it can be completed. Maddox, Garry. 17 May 2017. " How Prince Charles steered filmmaker Gurinder Chadha to make Viceroy's House." The Sydney Morning Herald. The main weakness is that the authors did not spend enough time on the details of Divide and Rule policies by the Conservative Government in the 1930s and during WWII. For this I suggest as a source Shashi Tharoor who is now a member of the Congress Party. He wrote a sharp critique of the British empire's effect on India. It is called Inglorious Empire. According to Tharoor in the middle to late 1930s the Congress Party (with the help of Gandhi) had made huge progress in integrating the Moslems and the Hindus. Through their protest marches, etc. they had pressured the British to hold an election for an Indian advisory body. In this election the Moslem League results were marginal, insignificant. Gandhi and Nehru were clearly on a good road to unity of Moslems and Hindus. What changed the situation was the British entry int World War II. Nehru offered the British support against fascism in exchange for a promise of independence. For Churchill this was out of the question. Nehru and other Congress leaders were thrown in jail and the British financially encouraged and supported the Moslem League. Nehru was isolated; for example, he was not allowed to send or receive letters. When he was released in 1945 he was not informed enough of the situation to understand what had happened in the meantime. One thing was clear: the Moslem League had become very strong. The following Labor Government and Mountbatten had no influence over these processes.Two of Lapierre's books – Is Paris Burning? (co-written with Larry Collins) and City of Joy – have been made into films. Lapierre and Collins wrote several other books together before Collins' death in 2005. A main theme of the authors is the sheer size and breadth of the British Empire at its peak as the Age of Imperialism is about to come to an end:

The appointed day has come—the day appointed by destiny—and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies Professor Joya Chaterji said: “This exhibition explores what freedom meant to people on the ground as power was transferred not to one, but to two nations – India and Pakistan – and euphoria mingled with the agony of refugees, and relief with horror at the brutality of partition. Brasted, H. V.; Bridge, Carl (1994). "The transfer of power in South Asia: An historiographical review". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 17 (1): 93–114. doi: 10.1080/00856409408723200. Cruelty and dimension; a land of past accomplishment and present concern, whose future was compromised by problems more taxing than those confronting any other assembly of humans on earth. Yet, for all that, for all her ills, their India was also one of the supreme and enduring symbols protruding above the cultural horizons of mankind.

Along the lines of The Great Indian Kitchen , Freedom@Midnight also focusses on the gender-based polemics in a modern-day marriage and how a couple views that relationship. But the aspects discussed in the short film are radically different from that of the feature film.