[caption id="attachment_21821" align="alignleft" width="475"] Author: GPS Mann[/caption] An Open Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi: The ‘Cockroach’ Anger Is a Warning That India’s Institutions Must Reform.India’s “Cockroach Janta Party” reflects a deeper crisis of trust…
The history of Punjab politics is deeply connected with the struggles, sacrifices, and leadership battles within the Sikh community after India’s independence. Among the most influential figures of that period was Sant Fateh Singh, who…
[caption id="attachment_21958" align="alignleft" width="660"] A modest memorial at his ancestral village Bhakna, in Amritsar district, dedicated to its Founder President Sohan Singh Bhakna (22.01.1870-21.12.1968)[/caption] Yesterday, 23 May 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada issued…
When Margaret Stock accepted her first pro bono immigration case as a young lawyer fresh out of Harvard, she was told it would take ten hours. “400 hours later, I was an immigration lawyer.”The government…
The Punjab government's Mukhyamantri Tirath Yatra Yojana was presented as a welfare scheme, in which free religious pilgrimage was to be conducted for the senior citizens of Punjab. Crores of rupees are being spent from…
On 31 October 1984, I was a young pre-engineering student at DAV College, Chandigarh. Like many young men of my generation in Punjab, I was living through a time when history had stopped being something…
This Accredited Official Statistics publication provides comprehensive statistics on the operation of the UK immigration system.The UK immigration system undertakes a wide range of activities including issuing visas to those outside of the UK, changes…
On a warm March day in 1967, a fair‑skinned woman, barely out of her twenties, walked up to the gates of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi with a small suitcase and a heavy secret.…
[caption id="attachment_21821" align="alignleft" width="475"] Author: GPS Mann[/caption] The Siliguri Corridor India’s so-called “Chicken’s Neck” is not merely a narrow strip of land in North Bengal. At barely 20–22 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, it…
[caption id="attachment_21757" align="alignleft" width="297"] Author:KBS Sidhu, IAS (retd.), served as Special Chief Secretary to the Government of Punjab. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The KBS Chronicle, a daily newsletter offering independent commentary on governance, public…
