The Railway Station

In a ruined palace in the woods, rummaging through discarded papers, our reporter finds a clue. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source ...  Show more

“Ellen, have you been trying to get in touch with the royal family of Oudh?” Our reporter receives an invitation to the forest. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes. ...  Show more

Begum Wilayat Mahal, the self-proclaimed heir to the House of Awadh, has fascinated journalists and writers for decades. She claimed she was Indian royalty, descended from the kings of Awadh, a kingdom annexed by the British in 1856. She spent a decade in the waiting room of the ...  Show more

In homes across the UK, partition is not history but a live issue for its young descendants. Over the course of a year, Kavita Puri follows three people as they piece together parts of their complex family history and try to understand the legacy of partition and what it means to ...  Show more

Sophia Duleep Singh was a Punjabi princess who grew up in England at the turn of the 20th century. She spends her teen years proving to the English elite that she belongs. But her reality shatters when she visits India for the first time and realizes just how much her life in Eng ...  Show more

A Muslim woman escapes being killed by her own family. The police don't protect her—so she joins their ranks. Will she now be believed? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.