[caption id="attachment_18176" align="alignleft" width="250"] 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…
The Mirror to India’s International ImageShri Amritsar Sahib is not merely a regional city; it is the spiritual heartbeat of the global Sikh community and a vital site of the Ramayana circuit. It is the…
Six more US children died of influenza last week, for a total of 66 pediatric deaths this respiratory illness season, as flu rates remained moderate to very high in different regions of the country, per…
As dawn ushers in the revered night of Mahashivratri on the 15th and 16th of March this year, millions across India and beyond ready themselves for a celebration steeped in devotion and sanctity. Mahashivratri, a…
The Union Government’s recent decision to require all educational institutions in India to promptly register and report admissions of foreign nationals — a category that will clearly sweep in Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) as…
[caption id="attachment_17719" align="alignleft" width="350"] Author Austin Kochar[/caption] The immigration enforcement debate in the United States has long been organized around a single, visible institution: detention. Whether the question is how many beds to fund, which…
[caption id="attachment_17719" align="alignleft" width="350"] Author Austin Kochar[/caption] The population at ICE’s Dilley family detention center in south Texas has surged from fewer than 500 people in October to 1,332 as of late January, according to…
Elon Musk has a talent for turning product launches into cultural events, but his latest move around X’s new messaging system—Chat, often referred to as X Chat—has a sharper edge. In essence, he is signalling…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asserted that Naxalism in India has reached the verge of extinction. From the narrow standpoint of armed Maoist violence in parts of central India, this claim may appear defensible.…
The same logic applies to red sorghum for animal feed, which is essentially jowar in Indian terms. Here the political language risks running ahead of agronomic reality. Jowar is not a major crop in Punjab…
