A rather amusing but also poignant message posted by Senior Journalist SP Singh within minutes of the news about death of Indian auto industry baron Rahul Bajaj breaking elicited many a response in various social media groups. We took the liberty to ask SP Sin... More »
Punjab will soon cast its vote. Punjabis will stream in their hundreds, thousands, to the nearest polling booths set up in schools from which kids have been kept away because schools could have, ostensibly, spread Covid, and will cast their votes. These will e... More »
Something sinister is happening to us, to the people interested in Punjab politics. We are tracking an electoral campaign, watching the shenanigans of politicians of all hues, and wondering if the newly formed SSM -Samyukta Samaj Morcha will undercut the Aam A... More »
Top-level security protocols in India are not really the stuff of public discourse, and except for a handful of people and veteran journalists who have frequently travelled with successive prime ministers, hardly anyone understands the intricacies of security,... More »
Dr Dharamvira Gandhi, former Member of Parliament from Patiala, Punjab, estranged from Aam Aadmi Party and known for his independent stances, has now openly issued a clarion call to “the progressives and all the secular-modernist liberals” to vote for the Cong... More »
You did not hear that supersonic boom, but Punjab’s Left finally broke the silence barrier. Thirty-seven long years after its tryst with silence over the 1984 killings of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere, the annual Mela Gadri Babiyan Da finally resolved to demand... More »
EXACTLY when Punjab’s Left comes together for its annual revolutionary jamboree called ‘Mela Gadari Babiyan Da’, the world’s calendar of shame marks the anniversary of the massacre of Sikhs in India’s capital and other cities in 1984. But the two narratives do... More »
ਬੇਅਦਬੀ ਦਾ ਬਿਰਤਾਂਤ ਚੱਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ। ਬਾਰਡਰ ਦੇ ਇਸ ਪਾਰ ਵੀ, ਉਸ ਪਾਰ ਵੀ। ਪੈਗੰਬਰ ਦੇ ਜਿਹਾਦੀ ਗੁੱਸੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਹਨ। ਗੁਰੂ ਪਿਆਰੇ ਕਾਂ ਮਾਰ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ। How much of your politics can be built on the foundation of sacrilege narrative? What does the Guru say about piety? Read this narrative by... More »
A lungi-clad man approaches the cops. They shoot him point-blank at close range, then rain blows and kicks on the fallen fellow. A government photographer jumps on the dying (dead?) man. The world learns about the Darrang district in central Assam from the vid... More »