because the truth needs to be told
The Sikh community in Delhi has made a significant mark in the recently concluded Vidhan Sabha elections, securing five out of the 70 Assembly seats. This marks a noteworthy moment in the city’s political landscape, as Sikh candidates from the Bharatiya Janata... More »
Across the Sikh world, there is a sense of satisfaction that the Government of Maharashtra has passed on the matter of new legislation for Takht Hazur Saheb to a Cabinet Sub-Committee, the Sikhs of Nanded over the last 15 days have been fasting in front of the... More »
ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰੀ ਦੀ ਇਹ ਕੋਈ ਪਰਿਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਤਾਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਰ ਜੇ ਸੰਪਾਦਕ ਨੂੰ ਪਤਾ ਲੱਗੇ ਕਿ ਭਾਜਪਾ ਦੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਸੁਨੀਲ ਜਾਖੜ, ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ ਦੇ ਬਿਕਰਮਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਜੀਠੀਆ ਅਤੇ ਡਾ ਦਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੀਮਾ, ਪਾਰਲੀਮੈਂਟ ਮੈਂਬਰ ਸਿਮਰਨਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਾਨ ਅਤੇ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਤੋਂ ਸਾਬਕਾ ਮੁੱਖਮੰਤਰੀ ਚਰਨਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਨੀ ਅਤੇ ਸਾਬਕਾ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਤੇ ਖੇਡ... More »
The public sphere is being transformed by partisan power politics. At a time when politicians in Punjab are challenging each other for public debates, but are clearly indulging in hyperbole, self-aggrandizement and gladiator-style bloody talking games, we brin... More »
Delhi Akali Dal chief, Paramjit Singh Sarna met with the Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities, Iqbal Singh Lalpura, seeking urgent intervention in the brutal assault on a Sikh youth, Sardar Amol Deep Singh, allegedly by a local councillor’s hu... 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 »
From the NCERT books taught in Indian schools to the work of Ramachandra Guha, to the endless piles of books that UPSC aspirants gorge upon, you will be told that the first non-congress government in independent India was the one elected in 1957 in Kerala and ... More »
After the Indian farmers’ movement achieved a historic victory in forcing the BJP government to repeal the three farm laws passed last year, Dr Pritam Singh, Professor Emeritus, Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford, UK outlines three important dimensions, in... More »
Pushed to the wall with a threat of relocation within a week by the Meghalaya government, the poor Sikhs of Shillong got a shot in the arm in the form of support from the lone Congress Member of Parliament Vincent H Pala endorsing their rights and the civil ri... More »