because the truth needs to be told
“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 »
Why weren’t we talking Ukraine when we were talking agriculture crisis? Why were we discussing shenanigans of party-hopping politicians in Punjab when Ukraine was simmering? How’s Singhu Border Andolan & MSP for crops directly linked to Ukraine? How far do you... More »
Civil rights activists -Jamia Millia Islamia Research Scholar, Safoora Jargar, student activist Asif Iqbal Tanha, human rights activist Nadeem Khan and other ground activists and lawyers of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights have comprehensively ch... More »
Paul Farmer died today. You might not know him, but here is what you must know about him, even if he is dead. If you are already well aware of who Paul Farmer was– after all, he’s considered one of the greatest celebrities of our times – you should be telling ... More »
ਜਦ ਵੀ ਇਹ ਤਸਵੀਰ ਸਾਹਮਣੇ ਆਉਂਦੀ ਹੈ ਤੇ ਸਿੱਖ ਇਨਕਲਾਬੀ ਕਵੀ ਗਜਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀਆਂ ਸਤਰਾਂ ਮਨ ਮਸਤਕ ਵਿਚ ਗੂੰਜਣ ਲੱਗ ਪੈਂਦੀਆਂ ਹੱਨ -“ਅੱਜ ਲੀਡਰ ਮੇਰੀ ਕੌਮ ਦੇ ਹੋਏ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੇ ਦਲਾਲ, ਕਿਸ ਅੱਗੇ ਜਾ ਕੇ ਫੋਲੀਏ ਅੱਸੀ ਕੌਮ ਦਾ ਮੰਦਾ ਹਾਲ।” ਪੰਜਾਬ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਹਰ ਉਂਗਲਾਂ ‘ਤੇ ਗਿਣੇ ਜਾਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਮੁੱਠੀ ਭਰ ਸਿਖਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਛੱਡ ਦੇਈ... More »
British activist and prolific writer Jagdeesh Singh pays a moving tribute to Deep Sidhu, calling him a powerful voice of Panjaabi nationhood a cut above the rest of the present decaying Sikh leadership. His untimely demise has awakened many a Panjaabi soul and... More »