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Monthly Archives: DECEMBER 2017

AMARINDER, BADALS, KHAIRA, AROOSA ALAM & A JOURNALIST OF TRIBUNE

Suhaani sham dhal chukki — Of samosas on 20th, five-star parties on 32nd, viral videos now!

31.12.17 - S Pal

WHEN THE LEADER of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha demands the resignation of the chief minister for the first time since the Congress government came into power, and makes allegations as sensational as sheltering a possibly Pakistani spy in the CM residence, there ...

RELIGION, POLITICS & LAW

Balwant Singh Khera - The frail man who could prove to be the nemesis of Akali Dal

15.12.17 -

LONG YEARS BACK, Balwant Singh Khera was an unassuming school teacher, but when he ran into stone walling officials of the Punjab Government who could not explain to him why primary school teachers have no promotional avenues, he learnt the ways of struggle and agitation. ...

WINNER OF VICTORIA CROSS AND MAHA VIR CHAKRA

70 years on, most decorated soldier of India remains unsung

12.12.17 - YASHVEER GOYAL

Barring few things done in his name by the successive governments and authorities concerned, Naib Subedar Nand Singh, the "highest ever decorated soldier of India", who having earned prestigious twin war medals, Victoria Cross (VC)-the highest military gallantry award of United Kingdom (UK) and Maha ...

WEATHER BULLETIN – FROM THE HEART

Breaking News – It rained last night. He heard, and wrote this.

12.12.17 -

It rained last night.
The weather turned.
The nip was now a chill.
The wheat stalks seemed to be smiling.
Sweaters needed a cover, so out came the jackets.

But then rain touches many raw nerves in us. To some, it brings back memories of a particularly fateful day. To ...

SPEAK, MEMORY

Lahore nu salaam

09.12.17 -

Memories of Lahore: 1938 to 1947, as narrated by Prof Randhir Singh, then a student active in the communist movement, to the author, his daughter.

Today, as Pakistan is once again going through a churning and Lahore – the town forever hyphenated with our past, with ...

Karze ne layee ikk hor kisan di…

Of Nirmal Singh’s eyes

02.12.17 -

No one stops even momentarily over a headline that one has read with an annoying degree of regularity. It defeats the very purpose of the headline. A headline must not appear on two consecutive days. It definitely must not appear so many times in a ...

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