I received a disturbing text message from my sister yesterday afternoon: “ICE has been at the girls’ old school today.”The girls, my nieces, used to attend World Language Immersion School in Columbus, Ohio, where they…
There is a quiet fiscal story unfolding in India—quiet because it does not lend itself to slogans, yet consequential because it will shape the quality of governance for the next decade.States—Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and…
When External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told Parliament that Punjab has the highest number of human trafficking cases in India, it almost sounded like an achievement—if governance were scored the way cricket teams are. Sadly,…
“Development” is one of those words that sounds self-evident until you ask a roomful of citizens to define it. Then certainty dissolves into a bundle of shifting priorities—changing with time, scarcity, technology, demography, and the…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded an unsolicited $1.6 million grant for vaccine research to Danish researchers whose studies have been challenged by mainstream scientists but championed by anti-vaccine activists,…
The recent Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad elections have, to a certain extent, reignited political interest in Punjab’s rural areas. That interest is understandable. With the Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections due as early as February…
Punjab today resembles a river that has lost its gradient. The water still moves, but it no longer carries the state forward with conviction. The noise of politics is constant, the theatre of rival claims…
The disruption of a Sikh Nagar Kirtan in New Zealand must be read for what it truly is: a warning that global tolerance for visible Sikh religious expression is wearing thin. Across several Western democracies,…
[caption id="attachment_17949" align="alignleft" width="500"] MP Mahua Moitra Wins the First Round in the Delhi High Court—But the Lokpal War Is Far From Over[/caption] The Delhi High Court’s decision today, 19 December, to set aside the…
[caption id="attachment_17715" align="alignleft" width="275"] Gurpartap Singh Mann is a farmer and former Member of the Punjab Public Service Commission. He has earlier served as Chief General Manager, Punjab Infrastructure Development Board. An Engineer and MBA…
