Punjab today stands at a sensitive and complex turning point, where multiple crises ranging from unchecked migration patterns and deteriorating law and order to political instability are converging to create a climate of uncertainty. While…
[caption id="attachment_21224" align="alignleft" width="550"] Author:Retired Principal, Guru Nanak Prem Karamsar College, NADALA, Kapurthala 144624 Managing Director, SMSK Educational & Charitable Trust, Maksudpur (Kapurthala)r:[/caption] Colleges have long been serving as the backbone of higher education, shaping…
Punjab does not grow the poison that is killing it. Every gram of heroin, every drone-dropped consignment, every diverted pharmaceutical tablet arrives from somewhere else — from Afghan poppy fields processed in Pakistan, from Himachal…
[caption id="attachment_20333" align="alignleft" width="500"] Author: Austin Kocher[/caption] As long-time readers of this newsletter know, the massive growth in ICE detention under the second Trump administration has not been accompanied by a corresponding commitment to public…
Chandigarh-Punjab today stands at a critical crossroads where multiple governance and social challenges are unfolding simultaneously. Among the most pressing issues are rising concerns about anti-social activities linked to sections of migrant populations, the unresolved…
Pakistan's official holiday calendar of 1953 listed Baisakhi on the 13th of April a rare documentary trace of a pan-Punjabi festival that Muslim communities once celebrated alongside their Sikh and Hindu neighbours, before religious identity…
By any conventional reckoning, last evening was a serious setback for the Modi government. A Constitutional Amendment Bill — requiring a two-thirds majority in both Houses — failed to secure the numbers. Worse, the accompanying…
The Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco is an indefensible act that must be categorically condemned. Whatever one thinks of Altman, OpenAI, or the accelerating spread of artificial intelligence, there is…
[caption id="attachment_21003" align="alignleft" width="363"] Narveen Singh Aryaputri, PhDIndependent Scholar.Presented atIndependent Scholars’[/caption] Let us look at definitions first. Definitions are good as historic evidence. They are structured arrangements of words, calculated to strike an exact note.…
As we celebrate Baisakhi today, the sacred day that marks the birth of the Khalsa Panth founded by Dashmesh Pita, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, our warmest greetings go out to all. On this day…
