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Monthly Archives: SEPTEMBER 2018

What one leaves behind

16.09.18 - Jawed Naqvi

ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE's ashes were immersed in the Ganga. Nehru had his scattered over the Himalayas from a plane. Theatre diva Zohra Sehgal desired no such fuss. She left a stark message for her followers to cremate her quietly and put her ashes in the ...

GURU KE LIYE, KUCHH BHEE KAREGA

Punjab’s angry crowds – Unsheathed swords, swinging lathis. All for the Guru.

07.09.18 - S Pal

THE CROWDS ARE angry, and they are baying for blood. The rulers are guiding them as to whose blood they must spill. Brandishing unsheathed swords, swinging sturdy lathis and shouting the war cry of Bole So Nihal, the devout are converging wherever they find a ...

Will Punjab see a new party by 2019? Panthic, nationalist, Punjabi, & without Badals

05.09.18 - S Pal

WILL PUNJAB SEE the emergence of a new political party, headed by Captain Amarinder Singh, panthic in nature and nationalist in its positioning, by 2019? Will Punjab see mid-term polls next year? The window is now wide open.

With the Akali Dal sinking into a vortex ...

UNHOLY HASTE

To save the faith

02.09.18 - Amandeep Sandhu

MY UNCLE HAD always wanted to go back to his village in Punjab. When he passed away in Delhi mid-August, his daughter Minni took his body to village Chakklan, district Morinda. The shareeka — larger family, kin, village community — took over the funeral rites. ...

FROM OFFICIAL TO MOCK, FROM ZEE TO PTC

Hua Panthik-Panthik Punjab - How do we reclaim real politics?

01.09.18 - S Pal

IN SEARING HEAT and amid ricocheting gunfire, when the Vijayanta Tanks of the Indian Army rolled into the parikarma of Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, it solidified a long-term narrative in Punjab politics: that the Congress was anti-panthic, and the Akalis were a panthic lot.

For three ...

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