1992 marked a critical and intensely debated phase in the Punjab insurgency. Under the leadership of K.P.S. Gill as Director General of Punjab Police, security forces launched a vigorous counterinsurgency campaign. This period saw a…
LOS ANGELES, CA –Punjabi origin Guramrit Sidhu has been sentenced to two decades for major Cross-Border Smuggling. Sidhu, a Canadian man who led a sophisticated drug trafficking network spanning the U.S.-Canada border, has been sentenced…
Milpitas(California)The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has placed Nitish Kaushal, also known by the alias “Lala,” on its wanted list for his alleged involvement in a major transnational criminal organization. The group, identified as the…
The release of police officials convicted in the abduction and murder of renowned human rights activist Shaheed Jaswant Singh Khalra has once again become a matter of intense public debate. Renewed interest following the release…
Punjab has occupied a unique place in the history of the Indian subcontinent. Throughout centuries, it has served as the gateway to India, absorbing the first impact of foreign invasions while protecting the rest of…
Every movement has a beginning. Some begin with anger, some with politics, and some with the simple desire to improve society. The Sikh youth movement that gathered momentum in Punjab during the late 1970s and…
While electoral politics dominates public attention in Punjab, the deeper challenges confronting the state are structural in nature. These issues evolve over decades and require sustained policy responses rather than short-term political strategies.Punjab today stands…
As Punjab moves steadily toward the next Assembly elections, the state's political atmosphere is becoming increasingly charged. Every major political party appears to have no shortage of leaders who see themselves as future chief ministers.…
For more than two decades, thousands of young men and women from Punjab have risked everything in search of better economic opportunities abroad. Many chose irregular migration routes—commonly known as the "Dunki Route"—to reach the…
Editor's Note:It is our privilege to present "The Political Economy of the Cycles of Violence and Non-violence in the Sikh Struggle", a scholarly article by , which will be published as a fourth and last…
