पंजाब: विदेश में बसने की होड़ राज्य के युवाओं को क्यों भारी पड़ रही है
पंजाब में कुछ लड़के विदेश में बसने के लिए ऐसी लड़की से शादी करते हैं, जो विदेश में पढ़ने के लिए पात्रता रखती हो. दोनों के बीच तय होता है कि लड़का व उसका परिवार उसे विदेश भेजने का पूरा ख़र्च उठाएंगे और फिर लड़की स्पाउस यानी जीवनसाथी को मिलने वाला वीज़ा भेजकर उसे भी […]Read More
Partition was not just ‘batwara’ or division, it was ‘ujara’ or devastation
Manish Tewari writes: What we owe the generation that suffered its horrors is a degree of equanimity and sensitivity when we recall those terrible times, not a politically loaded metaphor of polarisation. On August 21, I travelled to Amritsar to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple and Durgiana Mandir, both powerful symbols of Punjab’s syncretic […]Read More
Marco Omizzolo: The Italian Activist Punjabi Immigrants Hail as ‘Sent by God’
Omizzolo not only organised the largest ever strike of exploited immigrants in Italy, but rescued one of them from horrific conditions of near slavery. One morning in 2009, young sociology student Marco Omizzolo was driving past the lush green fields of Lazio, Italy, when he noticed a Sikh immigrant lying injured on the road. He […]Read More
Birdwatch: Black-rumped Flameback’s repeated knocks on dry trees gives a musical experience
The species also called Lesser Goldenback can be identified from its overall golden yellow upper parts with spotting on black throat, shoulders, and folded grimparies, black rump and tail. Black-rumped Flameback also known as Lesser Goldenback is one of the very common resident birds in the Inter-State Chandigarh Region (ISCR). The male and female of […]Read More
What Explains Amritpal Singh’s Mystifying Rise as the New Poster Boy of Radical Sikh Politics?
The 29-year-old is accused by mainstream politicians of creating tensions in Punjab. His followers hail him for addressing ‘festering wounds’. An unknown figure until a few months ago, 29-year-old Amritpal Singh is now being spoken of as the new poster boy of Sikh radical politics in Punjab. Amritpal, who returned to India from Dubai just a […]Read More
Hope of cure lures people to churches
While Punjabis, especially Sikhs, had reined in local deras where self-styled godmen “cured diseases” and helped people in many ways such as getting a better job and spouse, in the last decade, a void was created after the deras were shut. It paved the way for independent churches to “flourish”. However, with the rising economic […]Read More
This Karnataka Professor Is On A Mission To Promote Punjabi
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann last November called for a mass movement for putting up signboards prominently in Punjabi along with other languages as a mark of respect to the mother tongue. A 47-year-old professor has been going around Punjab and exhorting shopkeepers and business owners to put up signboards in Punjabi language. The man […]Read More
Libraries on wheels: How Punjab’s Hoshiarpur is taking a giant step forward, book by book
In Hoshiarpur, a green district of Punjab otherwise known for its natural beauty and serenity, two mobile libraries launched amid pandemic to keep residents occupied during lockdown and inculcate reading habit, have now become a regular feature. Barring a few exceptions, the concept of taking books to every nook and corner of a city or […]Read More
Vijay Diwas: A recap of the 1971 Indo-Pak War, which helped birth Bangladesh
The Indo-Pak War of 1971, which was short and intense, was fought on both the Eastern and Western fronts over 13 days. A look at what led to it, and how India played its part in the liberation of Bangladesh. Vijay Diwas or Victory Day is commemorated on December 16, marking the end of the […]Read More
When Lata Mangeshkar and Noor Jehan broke down as they met in the no man’s land between India-Pakistan
Lata Mangeshkar and Noor Jehan shared a warm friendship with each other even though they lived miles apart. Late singer Lata Mangeshkar, who passed away earlier this year, shared a warm friendship with Pakistani singer Noor Jehan. So much so that the two singers would chat on the phone for hours whenever they got a chance. On […]Read More
