Viral Video: Amritsar Vendor Selling Samosas For Just Rs. 2.50 Has Won The Internet
An Amritsar-based vendor is selling Samosas for just 2 rupees and fifty paise, leaving internet users stunned! Amritsar is a city known to be a foodie’s paradise. There are plenty of eateries in Amritsar that are famous not just in Punjab but also in the entire country. From mouth-watering Kulchas to crispy and decadent Fish […]Read More
Amritsar Calling: The expletive repository of the nation
The folks in Amritsar are accustomed to a more colourful rendition of the mother tongue, way more deep-rooted to the expletive traditions than we refugees. My father once told me that the most derogatory term in Kabul was Pisreh khanzeerast. Thus, calling someone the son of a pig in Farsi was sacrilegious to the hilt. […]Read More
Explained: Why students from Punjab, Haryana go to Ukraine to study medicine
According to the Ministry of Education and Science in Ukraine there are over 18,095 students from India in Ukraine. Caught in the crossfire of Russia’s attack on Ukraine are countless Indian students. Stuck in Ukraine amid an escalating military crisis, several had gone there to pursue an education in medicine. Among these medical students are […]Read More
February 11, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Assam Talks Fail
After a four and a half hour marathon meeting of official sources and the movement leaders reported the virtual failure of their renewed efforts to evolve an acceptable principle for the detection of foreign nationals. The second round of tripartite talks on the future of foreigners in Assam ended in a deadlock. After a four-and-a-half-hour […]Read More
Modi’s Aim Isn’t to Pay Tribute to Netaji and the INA But to Put Mahatma Gandhi in His Place
The central figure of the national movement was the man assassinated on January 30, 1948 precisely because he was the central figure. It was the first act in a brazen conspiracy to appropriate the freedom movement by forces who played no part in it. We are seeing the second and third acts now. There is […]Read More
Freedom on the Waves: The Story of the 1946 Indian Naval Mutiny
‘For the first time the blood of men in the Services and in the streets flowed together in a common cause’. The Royal Indian Navy’s mutiny will now be commemorated in a Republic Day tableau. Note: This article was originally published on February 18, 2016 and is being republished on January 24, 2022, in light […]Read More
December 7, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Ahmedabad fire
At least 60 persons were burnt to death in a blaze that gutted a jute and wooden replica of the Himalayas set up for a religious exhibition outside the Neelkantha Mahadev temple in the labour suburb of Asarwa. At least 60 persons were burnt to death in a blaze that gutted a jute and wooden […]Read More
A bid to preserve tradition of Sarangi and Dhadd
Dhadd and Sarangi are the two folk musical instruments that have been in use in Punjabi folk songs for quite a long time. Sarangi produces musical tunes while dhadd renders rhythm. Punjabi culture is very old and one of the richest with its myriad content that fills our lives with colors. Punjabi traditional folk instruments are […]Read More
Guru Nanak
“The Bounteous Lord heard the anguished cries (of humanity),and so, Guru Nanak, He sent to this world of woe.” – Bhai Gurdas Ji Guru Nanak Dev Ji (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ), the founder and first Guru of Sikhism, was born in the year 1469, in the village Talwandi which is located in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. The village, now known as Nankana Sahib, […]Read More
Alexander and Chandragupta Maurya: a short history of war, empire, and greatness
The use of the suffix ‘great’ has become less common in modern history-writing however, as historians have moved their focus away from the political triumphs of individual rulers to the society, economy, art and architecture of their times. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday (November 14) said that Chandragupta Maurya, who founded the […]Read More
