Revival of the Punjabi Past
Chandigarh-based the Panjab Digital Library is locating, digitising, preserving and collecting the rich heritage of the entire region.. Harbinger of joy
One moment he appears to be the showman of the art world, delighting one and all with his wisecracks, mesmerising them with his artistic prowess, bowling them over with his large-hearted gestures... B-town’s dancing queen, Malaika Arora Khan
IN this age of specialisation, a female in the Indian filmdom can hold the centrestage without being a heroine of a movie. But this was not so about two decades ago: Helen was a great dancer, but she could never dream of replacing,...Maqbool Sabri obituary
The Pakistani musician Maqbool Sabri, who has died from a heart attack aged 65, was a founding member of the Sabri Brothers, who took to the west the devotional music known as qawwali. Rooted in the mystical Islamic expression of ....Why our textbooks should include Ranjit Singh
The writer works on a USAID-funded economic project called FIRMS and holds a master’s degree from the University of Warwick, UK ...How Bar People Confronted Invaders
Half a millennium ago, what at present is a small sleepy midsized town called Sultanpur Lodhi used to be a flourishing garrison town of the Lodhi Muslim Dynasty that ruled Northern India prior to Mughal Emperor Zaheer-ud-Din Babar’s,...BHAI JWALA SINGH
Half a millennium ago, what at present is a small sleepy midsized town called Sultanpur Lodhi used to be a flourishing garrison town of the Lodhi Muslim Dynasty that ruled Northern India prior to Mughal Emperor Zaheer-ud-Din Babar’s conquests ...Sheila Didi : 1928-2011
Sheila Didi, who has died aged 83 in Chandigarh, was one of the most prominent women political activists of the post -1947 East Punjab...Translations of Yashpal's Hindi Novel "Jhoota Sach"
Har Gobind Khorana
H. Gobind Khorana, who rose from a childhood of poverty in India to become a biochemist and share in a Nobel Prize for his role in deciphering the genetic code, died on Wednesday in Concord, Mass. He was 89. . ...