April 24, 2020
In a country like India, where the total migration touches a figure of about 40 crore migrants, with inter-state migration accounting for about 5 crore, it is a Herculean challenge for the State to fight the Covid-19 pandemic through a strict lockdown, unless its leadership is extremely effective and result oriented in supplying the essentials […]
Read MoreNovember 27, 2019
There is an old saying on the delays in judicial system : Pigs enter the long pipeline and die en-route, but not before producing large number of piglets; who in turn get converted into sausages before they drop out of the long pipeline in the final act.
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2019
I have started celebrating the 550th anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji by reading and re -reading all scholarly historical literature related to him. š As a student of Punjab history, with emphasis on history of the Sikhs, it was a pleasure for me today to read the research article containing the pioneering hypothesis […]
Read MoreSeptember 2, 2019
Litfests here, Litfests there! I write on dew drops, on waves, on gushes of fragrant air that kiss roses next door, on smiles and tears, on sands and on melting snow. Life is a literature festival, and I am the celebrated author of everything but of my destiny.
Read MoreApril 13, 2019
The acid test of a mature political leader is getting rid of the clever parasites sticking on to him only for sucking the blood of his electorate. Thatās the beginning of the end of a leader.
Read MoreApril 13, 2019
āDemocrazyā : When public opinion is driven by crazy anecdotal impulses.
Read MoreApril 13, 2019
The New Zealand massacre is once again an example of bleeding human values. Let us not allow mental freaks to soak humanity in bloodshed.
Read MoreApril 13, 2019
For curing global terrorism based on accentuated intolerance, there should be a worldwide educational campaign to wash away irrational ethnocentricity etched on vulnerable minds.
Read MoreDecember 17, 2018
34 years of delay in Sikh genocide cases once again proves that police investigation is a machine to which truth may go into as a pig and come out of it as a sausage. Itās U turns and somersaults are perfectly seasonal, according to the political climate. It can cover an inch in decades, and […]
Read MoreNovember 30, 2018
Past is frozen in time. Donāt let the future be chained by the past. Letās try to liberate it. Let us mould the future as we wish it to be. If the past is doomed, why doom the future too? I welcome the positivity surrounding the glorious diplomatic success in making the Kartarpur Sahib Indo-Pak […]
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