I joined the Punjab IAS in 1958. In 1960, Prime Minister Nehru signed the World Bank Sponsored Agreement with Prime Minister Liaqat Ali...

Yesterday the General Manager of the Delhi Telephones, Mr. P.C. Jauhri, offered a gift to the citizens of the capital (Statesman, 20th...

Cricket is my favourite game. In school at St. George's College, Mussoorie, I was as feared a left-arm demon bowler as Bedi has been on...

Sokoto is so far from Punjab, and yet it brings back little memories of that land. Like Punjab it is 1,000 miles from the sea. The Niger...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IN INDIA Can the Hindu caste system, which has always held India's 576,000 villages together, survive the...

Whenever and wherever we discussed the charms of the valley during our recent visit to Kashmir a new name kept cropping up. Everyone...

She stood there alone like “Ruth amid the alien corn”. Behind her was the vastness of a tropical forest with trees more than a 150 feet...

My wife said: We must go to the pictures. Haven’t been there for years”. I demurred, seeing no reason to break a sensible policy. She...

In September 1962, Spiti burst upon the national scene with a tragic drama, involving over 2,000 people – men and women engaged in the...

I like going to the Himalayas. The love affair started in 1961, when I trained at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling,...

After a long time I had occasion on Monday to see women at play. The occasion was the final of the Women's Hockey Championship at...

His passing away is a great loss to hill culture For The Tribune, Tribute | November 22, 2020 In 1959, the Chinese suddenly attacked...

For The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | November 10, 2019 I was born in Aldinpur, a kilometer from Tarn Taran, Punjab. The township was...

For The Tribune, Ludhiana | June 11, 2019 In 1985, on return from the World Bank, I became Development Commissioner, Punjab,...

For The Tribune, Chandigarh | April 7, 2019 No hope in sight: Odds seem to be heavily stacked against the people of Punjab. Tribune...

The success of Punjab's Green Revolution is well known and, I think today, that Dr Kalkat and others were not adequately recognised. For...

For The Sunday Tribune, Chandigarh | June 25, 2017 Kaffeeklatsch: 'Media would not be intimidated', dated June 11, was a good read....

After the results of the UP assembly polls, EVMs are in focus. Losers claim EVMs were "rigged," while ECI swears by the safe and...

For The Tribune, Chandigarh | November 3, 2016 Jawahar Lal Nehru at the capital site in Chandigarh Partition in 1947 was the greatest...

The conversion of the Lal Khoohi gurdwara, historically recorded as a gurdwara, into a Muslim shrine makes one regret that the...