because the truth needs to be told
ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਦਾ ਥਾਪੜਾ ਹੈ – ਆਓ ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰੀ ਫ਼ਾਈਲਾਂ ਵਾਚਣ ਚਲੀਏ। ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ ਅੱਜਕਲ ਸਿਨੇਮਾ ਵੇਖਣ ਜਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ। ਰਾਜਨੀਤੀ ਨੇ ਇਤਿਹਾਸਕਾਰੀ ਕਰਨ ਉੱਤੇ ਲੱਕ ਬੱਧਾ ਹੈ, ਇਸ ਲਈ ਦੇਸ਼ ਭਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਭੀੜਾਂ ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ ਸਮੱਸਿਆ ਦਾ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਸਮਝਣ ਲਈ “ਦਿ ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ ਫਾਈਲਜ਼” ਨਾਮ ਦੀ ਫਿਲਮ ਵੇਖਣ ਬਹੁੜ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਹਨ। ਫਿਲਮ ਵਿੱਚ ਬਹੁਤੀਆਂ... More »
The Missing Files that We Need to Annex to the Movie Recommended by PM Modi — Kashmir to Khatkar Kalan tak Inquilab Zindabad bhee to karna hai INDIA IS WATCHING The Kashmir Files, cinema halls are reverberating with patriotic slogans masquerading as abuse for ... More »
In his novel “Dance Dance Dance” that I loved in the late 80s for its idiosyncratic prose, Haruki Murakami says, “What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.” Let us be clear: this was not a deal with the farmers. No one told the farmers... More »
When Narendra Modi rammed into the country’s federal politics in 2014, Congress was ruling in nine states. Next time, Modi makes a bid for the new Central Vista PMO, Congressmen fear the party might not be in power in any state. With Punjab gone, and its hopes... More »
Senior journalist SP Singh has posted a piece in some WhatsApp groups about Holi and our contemporary times where the Hindu, Sikh, Musalman questions have come to define our politics, lives, festivals, and even culinary and sartorial choices. At a time when th... More »
“THINGS fall apart; the centre cannot hold,” Yeats could have said this about Punjab’s politics. As the fulcrums of power, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Congress, both more than century-old parties, fell by the wayside, the country actually wants to understand... More »
Given the reemergence of federalist politics across the country, it is very unlikely that the Bharatiya Janta Party will form a government in the electorally significant state of Uttar Pradesh, says political analyst Kumar Sanjay Singh. Factoring the ground lo... More »
Two years ago, 53 people lost their lives in the Delhi Pogrom, two-thirds of them being Muslims. Shops/businesses of Muslim owners were burnt while those of their Hindu counterparts remained unscathed. Muslim homes were marked, vandalised and burnt. While Nort... More »
It’s difficult to match the magic that electoral partisan politics can play upon the people. Without grappling with the question about crisis in peasantry, without even touching the hot-button issue of unemployment, without talking about the issue of Punjab’s ... More »
If Navjot Sidhu loses from Amritsar East, but Congress forms govt, will he quit as Punjab Congress president? If Navjot Sidhu wins Amritsar East, but the party fails to form govt, will he then quit? If Navjot Sidhu wins Amritsar East, Charanjit Channi loses fr... More »
Lawyer, activist and writer, lecturer of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Mallika Kaur, has painstakingly gathered details of three pioneering human rights defenders and weaved the story of contemporary Punjab around their work, especially looking at the ... More »
Russian military aggression on Ukraine, a newly emerged independent state, a people and nation: has wide ramifications for other nations and peoples subject to the pressures and demands of overbearing, rogue, supremacist states. Not least for the East Panjaab ... More »