because the truth needs to be told
ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰੀ ਦੀ ਇਹ ਕੋਈ ਪਰਿਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਤਾਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਰ ਜੇ ਸੰਪਾਦਕ ਨੂੰ ਪਤਾ ਲੱਗੇ ਕਿ ਭਾਜਪਾ ਦੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਸੁਨੀਲ ਜਾਖੜ, ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ ਦੇ ਬਿਕਰਮਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਜੀਠੀਆ ਅਤੇ ਡਾ ਦਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੀਮਾ, ਪਾਰਲੀਮੈਂਟ ਮੈਂਬਰ ਸਿਮਰਨਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਾਨ ਅਤੇ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਤੋਂ ਸਾਬਕਾ ਮੁੱਖਮੰਤਰੀ ਚਰਨਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਨੀ ਅਤੇ ਸਾਬਕਾ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਤੇ ਖੇਡ... More »
The public sphere is being transformed by partisan power politics. At a time when politicians in Punjab are challenging each other for public debates, but are clearly indulging in hyperbole, self-aggrandizement and gladiator-style bloody talking games, we brin... 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 »
Subcontinental hockey powerhouses, India and Pakistan, dominated the game for nearly 50 years when it was played on grass. The surface proved to be a premium when it came to stick work, control and near-total dominance since Indians and Pakistanis were the mas... More »
“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 »
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 »
If Navjot Sidhu loses from Amritsar East, but Congress forms govt, will he quit as Punjab Congress president? If Navjot Sidhu wins Amritsar East, but the party fails to form govt, will he then quit? If Navjot Sidhu wins Amritsar East, Charanjit Channi loses fr... More »
From the NCERT books taught in Indian schools to the work of Ramachandra Guha, to the endless piles of books that UPSC aspirants gorge upon, you will be told that the first non-congress government in independent India was the one elected in 1957 in Kerala and ... More »
Pushed to the wall with a threat of relocation within a week by the Meghalaya government, the poor Sikhs of Shillong got a shot in the arm in the form of support from the lone Congress Member of Parliament Vincent H Pala endorsing their rights and the civil ri... More »
How would the Sikh community, Punjabis at large and, in fact, all right-thinking people, react if the Government of Punjab was to make a law that it was legally mandatory for people to visit the Gurdwaras to pay obeisance to a Sikh Guru? Don’t try and jump to ... More »
Conditioned only to read what is published, and not trained at all in reading what is not published, most of us are ill-equipped to read the headlines that do not appear in newspapers or in our television debates or make it to our social media handles. Unfortu... 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 »