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Madan Gopal Singh: Purity of Expression

With Sufi singer, cinema theorist, writer and lyricist Madan Gopal Singh questions become redundant. Like a torrent, his thoughts envelop you just as his honest and pure singing does...

Books to set off a revolution

The truth is, when Punjabis were divorced from books, they were reduced to caricatures of their former selves. This ordinance will revive Punjab’s spirit ...

Sikhs of Europe`s first Sikh Military Monument

On Saturday 13th August 2011 thousands of Sikhs from all over the World, mainly from Europe (Italy, United kingdom, Holland, France and Switzerland) gathered at Forli Indian Army War Cemetery in Italy,...

Ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh is no more

The singer Jagjit Singh, the soul-stirring voice behind "Hazaron khwaishe aisi" and Ghalib’s other several ghazals, "Ye kaghaz ki kashti" and "Jhuki jhuki si nazar", died on 10 October in Mumbai over a fortnight after. ....

Tragedy of Partition

THE people of South Asia have been particularly ill-served by their political leaders. This judicious work provides a detailed analysis of their misdoings that resulted in the bloody partition of the Punjab ...

When teaching power of mother was lost

Religion disallows photographs, says a group that included the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and its founder, Maulana Maudoodi. In the same fashion, objections were raised, after independence, against the statues ...

Past-Unto-Death

Unlike in current times, long, protracted hunger strikes by revolutionary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Jatin Das were imbued with a strikingly different ideology, vision and strength of character.....

Gursharan Singh: A Devout Punjabi

Punjab has its vibrant revolutionary tradition starting with Bhagat Singh. With the death of Gursharan Singh, fondly known as Bhaaji respected brother, a link with this tradition has broken. If the worst crisis of East Punjab . ...

Gursharan Singh: A life of revolution

“It is a long battle, the battle of changing mindsets,” Gursharan Singh, who has died aged 82, once said of his theatre movement. It exhausted some, some drifted away, and some are still fighting on.. ...