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…
A reckoning with the gap between what societies claim and what they actually do — and a roadmap to genuine, everyday change.Every culture on earth claims to honour women. Mothers are praised as pillars of…
The Punjab Government’s decision to constitute a high-powered committee to formalise job reservation for Agniveers in state government services deserves to be welcomed — warmly, but not uncritically. The committee is headed by Vikas Pratap,…
El Niño is a climatic phenomenon caused by abnormal warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean near the equator. Though it originates thousands of kilometres away from India, its effects spread across the globe…
The Anandpur Sahib Resolution remains one of the most debated political documents in modern Indian and Punjabi history. Passed by the Shiromani Akali Dal in 1978, the resolution emerged during a period of political uncertainty…
The reorganisation of Punjab on November 1, 1966, was supposed to be a moment of justice, the creation of a Punjabi-speaking state for its people. Instead, it planted the seeds of some of the most…
