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Sing The Wrath Of Punjab
A great narrative poem of a Jallianwala Bagh massacre survivor, and lost for long, is finally translated. It retains the cadences of this...
May 27, 20191 min read
Abandoned at Sea | Voices of Komagata Maru
In September 1914, the German cruiser Emden, with remarkable stealth, appeared at the mouth of the Hooghly and destroyed five English...
May 25, 20194 min read
Inexcusable disgrace
Some events – the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Soweto shootings, the suppression of the Mau Mau – die slowly in the memory of nations,...
May 17, 20194 min read
Jallianwala Bagh at 100: myth versus reality
The narrow entrance to Jallianwala Bagh has little to scare the visitor today. It leads conveniently into an open garden where tourists...
Apr 12, 20195 min read
Jallianwala Bagh massacre: ‘Deep regret’ is simply not good enough
Though no one was holding their breath, there was some expectation of a British apology on the occasion of the centenary of the horrific...
Apr 12, 20194 min read
The Post American World | Podcast
The Jaipur Bytes podcast, hosted by Lakshya Datta, delivers thought-provoking ideas and meaningful debates from the iconic Jaipur...
Apr 11, 20191 min read
Punjab’s epochal milestones, key challenges | The Tribune
IT is truly a privilege to be here, on this spring day, in this invigorating intellectual space of Majha House, in the heart of this...
Mar 30, 20195 min read
The making of a maverick martyr
At 9 a.m. sharp, on July 31, 1940, Udham Singh was hanged to death from a 15-foot wooden beam stretched across a room in Pentonville...
Nov 25, 20188 min read
What did the British achieve in a century in India? | Financial Times
Seventy-one years on since the union flag came down on the Indian sub-continent, the debate about whether the Raj only pillaged and...
Aug 31, 20186 min read
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