because the truth needs to be told
It is your life, and the law will change it — so watch this debate. India is passing through a period of great unison in every sphere; so exactly when the BJP-led government is all out to bring in a Uniform Civil Code, the Supreme Court of India also starts qu... More »
When Narendra Modi rammed into the country’s federal politics in 2014, Congress was ruling in nine states. Next time, Modi makes a bid for the new Central Vista PMO, Congressmen fear the party might not be in power in any state. With Punjab gone, and its hopes... More »
How does one even begin to understand a verdict as massive as 92 seats in a house of 117 legislators? As the two traditional parties, both more than a century old, fell by the wayside, and a rank outsider rode to power riding a wave of anger, alienation and ve... 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 »
Hundreds of miles away from the Sikh-centric city of Birmingham, the British High Commission in Chandigarh held a meet to generate interest for Birmingham Commonwealth Games slated for July-August 2022. With the opening of direct air services from Amritsar to... More »
The demise of veteran human rights champion Justice Ajit Singh Bains touched the lives of many nationalist movements who in their gratefulness have paid humble tributes to him at his recent passing away. The Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, describing h... More »
Why weren’t we talking Ukraine when we were talking agriculture crisis? Why were we discussing shenanigans of party-hopping politicians in Punjab when Ukraine was simmering? How’s Singhu Border Andolan & MSP for crops directly linked to Ukraine? How far do you... More »
Civil rights activists -Jamia Millia Islamia Research Scholar, Safoora Jargar, student activist Asif Iqbal Tanha, human rights activist Nadeem Khan and other ground activists and lawyers of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights have comprehensively ch... More »
Academicians, environmental activists, religious activists led by Baba Seechewal and Giani Kewal Singh staged a spirited march in Ludhiana to enforce a Green Manifesto for all political parties and candidates contesting elections for the Punjab Assembly Electi... More »
Pakistan’s Imran Khan government has launched a ‘Naya Pakistan Sehat Card’, under which some 30 million families will be able to avail health insurance and each family will be able to spend up to Rs1 million on quality healthcare from designated public and pri... More »
It is a crime that occurs in our streets, in our towns every night. The problem is that the law does not consider it a crime. There is a significant section of the populace that defends this crime. It is called Marital Rape – and an appropriate translation d... More »
In its State of the Panth series, the US-based Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) has released its eighth research report on Dasvandh or tithes as it is generally known in the English world, based on an extensive global survey of individuals through 23 countries... More »