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“THINGS fall apart; the centre cannot hold,” Yeats could have said this about Punjab’s politics. As the fulcrums of power, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Congress, both more than century-old parties, fell by the wayside, the country actually wants to understand... More »
Professor Sheila Bhalla (1933-2021), Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), an internationally renowned agricultural economist with special expertise in Haryana agriculture, and a scholar with deep engagement with progressive and democratic m... More »
ਇੱਕ ਇਹੋ ਜਿਹੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਜਦੋਂ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਭਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਪੁਨਰ ਜਾਗ੍ਰਿਤੀ ਵਾਲਾ ਅੰਦੋਲਨ ਚੱਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੋਵੇ, ਲੜਾਈ ਹੋਂਦ ਦੀ ਹੋਵੇ, ਖਿੱਤੇ ਨੇ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੇ ਤਖ਼ਤ ਨਾਲ ਟੱਕਰ ਲਈ ਹੋਵੇ ਤਾਂ ਕੀ ਇਹ ਸਿਆਸੀ ਪਾਰਟੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਜ਼ੇਬ ਦੇਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਸਿਆਸਤ ਦੇ ਸਵਾਲਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਸ ਹੱਦ ਤਕ ਮਨਫ਼ੀ ਕਰ ਦੇਣ ਕਿ ਕੋਈ ਨਾਰਾਜ਼ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟਰ ਤੋਂ ਸਿਆਸਤੀ... More »
Senior journalist and television anchor SP Singh, well known to the Punjabi readers for his weekly column, Likhtum BaDaleel, in Punjabi Tribune, ploughed a characteristically different furrow when it came to making sense of the recent election results from Wes... More »
The blunt fangs of the gargantuan BJP are showing in West Bengal, Assam and Tripura. With the BJP cadres forcing “Jai Shri Ram”, down the throats of the people of West Bengal, in their zeal to upset the ruling Trinamool Congress Party of Mamta Banerjee, the BJ... More »
Dal Khalsa president Harpal Singh Cheema in a statement from the Singhu border protest site, strongly condemned the framing of farmer leaders and Sikh activists in fake cases by the Delhi police at the behest of the government. DAL KHALSA president Harpal Sing... More »
Protesting the recent arrest of Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy under the unlawful provisions of the black law -Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, The World Sikh News editor Jagmohan Singh writes an Open Letter to him expressing full solidarity with him and the... More »
Alleging a clear backhand deal between the just-retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India -Justice Ranjan Gogoi and the Bharatiya Janata Party government, Dal Khalsa has said that the hollow character of the Indian judicial and political dispensation... More »
India’s wait for Delhi Legislative Assembly results to see the victory of people’s issues against the divisive politics of hate and fascism is over. AAP has trounced BJP and it is down to single digits again. WSN Desk teammate Gurmeet Singh, who keeps a keen e... More »
Shiromani Akali Dal decision to support the Bhartiya Janata Party after announcing non-participation in Delhi Assembly elections on its difference with the party on CAA and NRC, has rattled the Sikhs. Dal Khalsa has chastised the party and other factions waiti... More »
WSN editor Jagmohan Singh does a quick scan of the career graph of teacher-turned-diplomat-turned politician Harinder Singh Khalsa, who yesterday joined the Bharatiya Janta Party. In a span of three decades, the aggressively low caste-conscious and obstinate H... More »
As electioneering begins for Lok Sahba 2019, the BJP openly turns anti-minority and no one has the guts to rein-in the Yogi-turned-politician Adityanath who does not mince words in his pro-majority and anti-minority views. Clearly, difficult times ahead for Mu... More »