[caption id="attachment_28099" align="alignleft" width="500"] Karan Bir Singh Sidhu: The author is a retired IAS officer of the 1984 batch, Punjab cadre, and Founder-Editor of The KBS Chronicle[/caption] On 20 October, Dussehra day, Amit Shah was…
[caption id="attachment_20334" align="alignleft" width="500"] Author:Austin Kocher[/caption] I was speaking in Daniel Naujoks’s class at Columbia University yesterday when I first saw ICE’s latest detainee death notification. Dan, a political economist with deep experience in the…
Punjab did not elect its Chief Minister to act as a silent spectator while political leaders from Delhi increasingly dominate the public debate over the state’s governance. In 2022, the people of Punjab gave the…
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), historically dominant in Punjab’s rural Sikh and agrarian belts, is prioritizing the revival of its traditional rural vote bank ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections. After significant setbacks in 2022…
The health of a modern democracy relies on a delicate, adversarial equilibrium. In theory, the ruling party governs with a mandate given by the electorate, while the opposition provides constructive scrutiny, acting as a check…
