 Zen and the Art of Terrorising People
8 October 2008
It wasn't very
comfortable decision for one of India's most
corporatised newspapers, The Times of India, when it invited the
compassionate monk... |
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Meddling With ‘Who is a Sikh’ Question
1 October 2008
Every few years,
Indian courts receive petitions from some mischief makers and some
apparently aggrieved people questioning the definition of a Sikh... |
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Masters behind masterminds
Editorial
24 September 2008
Who stands to
gain the most if the entire focus in India's body polity turns
towards terrorism? Who tends to gain if attacks on Christians are in
the headlines?.... |
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 Terror,
soft targets and shenanigans
17 September 2008
For those who
are engaged in a fight of justice with the government of India,
ordinary people in the streets and markets are soft targets... |
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No Copyright on Human Rights
10 September 2008
After a long
time, the scary death of Ajit Singh Poohla has again brought the
issue of human rights into focus in Punjab, albeit for a few days
only... |
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 Revenge
Overtakes Justice
3 September 2008
Revenge
has a
sweet-bitter tinge to it. When individual vengeance becomes a
mass feeling it becomes all the more strong and vehement... |
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 Partition Is An Idea
27 August, 2008
India is once
again struck with the idea of Pir Panjal mountains marking a
division. Top Indian intellectuals have started talking about
dividing the state... |
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 Kashmir: No rights, only wrongs
20 August, 2008
The Indian
response to strife and rebellion is rhetoric and more. When
Kashmiris want more rights, India does more wrongs. When
Indian and international... |
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 Akal Takht: Discourse
With Modernity
13 August, 2008
The challenge posed by
political intervention in Akal Takht affairs is a serious one and
requires the need to engage with the discourse of modernity while
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Educational Adventurism in Punjab
6 August, 2008
The humid
July-August months coincide with the education season in Punjab. Though we
did not have a very hot summer, the humidity has dulled the educational... |
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 Yatra: From piety to impiety
29
July, 2008
Indian roads
these days are choked with frenzied kanwarias. And images from the
state of Jammu and Kashmir feature aggressively marching
Hindu.. |
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 Nuclear Deal good for which India?
23
July, 2008
The Indian
sub-continent has many Indias. The Indian face to be shown as a
bride to be is the neo-urban India. The real face of poverty, the
snake charmers... |
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Policing India through torture, fake encounters
16 July 2008
While India
shies away from a debate on death penalty and a death row prisoner
like Balwant Singh Rajoana has shamed the nation state by deciding
not only... |
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Thank Saini for the tip: Write your histories
9
July, 2008
When India's CBI
indicted blood-thirsty police officers like Sumedh Singh Saini, it
was interesting to see how newspapers in Punjab were scrambling to
get... |
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 A
Nation-State At Half-Mast
2
July, 2008
Sam
Manekshaw, India's Field
Marshal and much respected soldier died last week. But Indian
leadership, even the three army chiefs, stayed away... |
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Sikh Protests: What next?
25
June, 2008
For the last one
year or more, the cultist baba from Sirsa in Haryana is having a
free-run of India, in full view of the Indian population and with
full co-operation... |
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 Oh, please
console the BJP
18
June,
2008
HINDUTVA spewing
right wing Bhartiya Janta Party is very sad these days over
developments in Nepal. Its
mouthpiece on foreign affairs, Jaswant Singh... |
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 Taking stock
11
June, 2008
Shame comes easy
to undemocratic rulers. Read the report on the front page about
India's pointsman for Operation Bluestar, Lt Gen (retd) KS Brar... |
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The Memories and A Memorial
4
June,
2008
Ascore and four
years ago, the Sikh community saw the face of the official Indian nation
state establishment. An establishment represented by the hegemonic... |
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 The State of Limbo
28
May,
2008
When it comes to the Sikhs, the Indian
nation state wants to redefine Sikhs out of the Minority status in
Punjab so that they can be left at the mercy... |
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 An
Apology, Canada and India
21
May,
2008
That Canada has a ministry for
Multiculturalism and that India has never even debated for having
any says something about the state of democracies in both.. |
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 Remembering the
dark May
14
May,
2008
In
the din that the rulers of Punjab have created with their ‘kabza’ mentality
of winning elections, in the violence in the aftermath of elections... |
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Democracy and Anger
7
May,
2008
When socially
conscientious filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza made the movie Albert
Pinto Ko gussa kyon aata hai in the early eighties, he was
giving expression to the building anger... |
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 The Language of
Power
30
April 2008
Masters of Linguistics remember very well how when the first ever
linguistic Survey of India was taking place, an entire lobby of
anti-Punjabi...
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 Booking the truth
23 April 2008
Imagine
a 16-and-a-half-year old bride who marries a Sikh youth committed to
a cause, a cause that made many pick up the gun and die... |
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 True Lies
16
April 2008
Worldwide, the
Khalsa Panth celebrated Vaisakhi this week, and vowed to re-connect
to the spirit of teachings of Guru Granth Sahib... |
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Brahamanical society, Advani’s book and the Sikhs
9
April
2008
Lal Krishan
Advani is known in India as the man who lead the Rath Yatra,
communalising Indian politics like never before in the post 1947
phase... |
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Human Rights Debate,
Indian Nation State and Vaisakhi
2
April
2008
In a matrix of
utter hopelessness and despair, and a politics of de-politicising
the youth and the rising middle class, any effort that endeavours to
re-focus... |
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 Will new Police University teach Bhai Kaunke
case?
26
March 2008
What kind of
training does Punjab Police provide to its trainees? Ask this
question to anyone on the streets... |
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Rogue dera head is a ticking human
bomb, not our girls
19
March 2008
Sardar Parkash
Singh Badal is very keen to save the life of Sarabjit Singh, and we
welcome his heartfelt concern. We also welcome Sardar Badal... |
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 Aadmi Hai ke Self Goal!
The ignominy of defeat of the Indian hockey team rancours more in
Sansarpur than in the whole country, though KPS Gill doesn't care
for disgrace or rout. |
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 Change and India
5
March 2008
Meet
the world's rising economic power, India. A country torn between
groups that have growth rate of under two percent and over nine
percent... |
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Unethical start to Adarsh Schools launch
27
February 2008
The monetization of education in Punjab has begun. Barring
a few stray voices, no political party nor social or academic group
or association is talking about it. Civil society seems
uninterested.... |
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 Kosovo -- Proving
the invincibility of the will of a free people
20 February 2008
Finally out of the
Serbian Control, the recent development in Europe sets example for
various Ethnic communities struggling for freedom... |
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 Trouble in Maharashtra and the Sikhs
13 February 2008
The
Sikh community should debate the Maharashtra issue of “outsiders” in
the light of its own experience... |
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 Issues linger, Jathedars delay
6 February 2008
The much-hyped meeting of the Jathedars at Akal Takht Sahib was
postponed at the last minute on Tuesday to an unscheduled date... |
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 Inner Party Democracy And Sikhs
30 January 2008
Political parties
in Punjab need a sound Constitution, a good set of byelaws and
healthy democratic elections to qualify the democracy test. |
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‘N’ number of
agendas won’t help
23 January 2008
The Sikh
community is currently passing through troubled times, and the
crisis is not uni-layered. It is a multi-layered one. While on the
one hand the Sikh community is facing a continuous onslaught from
Hindutva-propelled establishment... |
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Irrelevance as an art form
16 January 2008
Punjab held a
conclave of the Non-Resident Punjabis from all over the
world. No one invited any of the vice chancellors, or head
of any research institution. Not a single expert from
education, health, dairy management... |
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 Showcasing the good work
9 January 2008
In the masthead market of the United States, South Asian
community newspapers scream.... |
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